Activator Ending Womens Suffrage Video Clip Youtube Clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- uPcthZL2R
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- uPcthZL2R One important reason to
learn history: not to be made a fool of
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Agenda Womans Suffrage Notes Review (20 minutes) Arguments For
and Against (30 minutes) Notes Susan B. Anthony Mark Twain Virginia
Anti-Suffrage Association. Challenge Questions (15 minutes) Harlem
Renaissance Review (10 minutes) Study Guide (20 minutes) Exit
Ticket (5 minutes)
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Objective All students will Analyze the passage of the 19 th
Amendment and the changing role of women in society. Collect the
best arguments for and against womens suffrage made between
1870-1920.
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Early Women's Suffrage Movement Suffrage: the right to vote
July 1848: Seneca Falls Convention. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Lucretia Mott. Abolitionists fought for womens rights
Declaration of Sentiments written We hold these truths to be self-
evident: that all men and women are created equal From the
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
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Womens Struggle During Reconstruction, 1868-1874 1868-1870:
14th and 15th Amendments + Citizenship/voting rights for men only
1872: Susan B. Anthony votes Arrested for illegal voting + Supreme
Court decides states can deny women the vote Resistance to tyranny
is obedience to God. -- Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for
illegal voting, 1872 1874: WCTU formed (Womens Christian Temperance
Union) + Fought for temperance and suffrage + Wanted vote to
protect families
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National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1890-1913 1890:
NAWSA formed (Natl American Woman Suffrage Assoc.) Led by Stanton
and Anthony + State by state strategy + Some Western states give
women the vote March on Washington 1913: NWP formed (National
Womans Party) + Alice Paul leader NWPs Silent Sentinals "The time
has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice - we have
made it." -- Alice Paul, the night before her arrest. NWP member in
Prison, sentenced to 6mths + Wanted Constitutional Amendment
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Opposition to Womans Suffrage Who did not want women to vote? +
Liquor Lobby: feared it would lead to Prohibition + Industrialists:
feared women would support labor reforms + Male chauvinists: Belief
that women belong in the home. (Angle of the House stereotype was
perpetuated by some prominent women as well).
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People Against Womans Suffrage Based arguments on unique nature
of women or special role they played in the home. Assumed
differences between men and women. Physical differences in strength
as well as biological difference in sex. Said women were too frail
and unsuited to vote. Public sphere and involvement in politics was
dangerous for women. It would threaten national security. Other
countries would see U.S. as weak and attack. Women less likely to
vote for hard foreign policy and less likely to be tough.
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Womans Suffrage Petition to U.S. Senate Women Voters
Anti-Suffrage Party of New York World War I, ca. 1917 By 1916
almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind
the goal of a constitutional amendment. When New York adopted woman
suffrage in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson changed his position
to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to
shift in favor of the vote for women. There was still strong
opposition to enfranchising women, however, as illustrated by this
petition from the Women Voters Anti- Suffrage Party of New York at
the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I.
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Protesting the President Photograph of Suffragist with "Kaiser
Wilson" Poster During World War I, militant suffragists, demanding
that President Wilson reverse his opposition to a federal
amendment, stood vigil at the White House and carried banners such
as this one comparing the President to Kaiser Wilhelm II of
Germany. In the heated patriotic climate of wartime, such tactics
met with hostility and sometimes violence and arrest.
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Protests
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19 th Amendment: Women Win the Right to Vote! 1920 1920: 19th
Amendment passed. - NAWSA and NWP joined forces - Prohibition
already passed. - Women helped in war effort, so many Congressmen
supported it NWP and Alice Continue Fight December 1920: proposed
ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
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Collecting Arguments For and Against Womans Suffrage (30
minutes) Yes, women should vote becauseNo, women should not vote
because Date Susan B. Anthony Mark Twain Virginia Anti-Suffrage
Association
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Challenge Questions (15 minutes) On your marks, get set, go! 1.
What event helped convince skeptics that women deserved the vote?
2. Which arguments were used by those opposed to womans suffrage?
3. The 19 th Amendment giving women the vote used the language of
which suffragist? 4. What impact did womans suffrage have on the
politics of the 1920s? 5. What was the purpose of the 19 th
Amendment? 6. Why did the number of votes cast in the U.S.
presidential election rise by 8.2 million from 1916 to 1920?
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Harlem Renaissance Review Movement for African American
empowerment Led by Black writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora
Neal Hurston. Harlem in NYC was hub of activity. Added to the
culture of the 1920s and to the ever-developing sense of what it
means to be American. Also included painters and musicians. Artists
change the way people think about the world.
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Harlem Renaissance Questions 1. What were the primary
objectives of the Harlem Renaissance writers? 2. What did Zora Neal
Hurston and Langston Hughes have in common? 3. What was the first
major motion picture with sound and what does it say about American
culture 1915-1920s? 4. What was Langston Hughes message in I Too
and in Dream Deferred?
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Study Guide: Use your notes, essays, and each other to answer
all the questions Unit 4: The Roaring 20s. 11.5.2: Racism,
anti-immigration and the reaction of social justice organizations.
11.5.4: 19 th Amendment and womens rights. 11.5.5: Harlem
Renaissance and new trends in literature, art, and music with focus
on Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston.
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Exit Ticket and Homework Homework: Reflection and poem in the
style of Langston Hughes due Wednesday 11/26. Exit Ticket: What
makes men and women different? Are women considered equal to men
today? Have you ever been treated differently, or less than,
because you were a girl or because you were a boy? Has sexism
affected you? How?
