Name: Anastasija Woman Suffrage Period: Bezruchenke Vocabulary: Unfeminine - not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women. Vocabulary: Immoral -not good or right: morally evil or wrong. Woman Suffrage GUIDING QUESTION Why did the progressives support the woman suffrage movement? At the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton convinced the delegates that winning suffrage- the right to vote-should be a priority. Decades later, this right still had not been gained. It became a major goal for female progressives. Early Challenges The woman suffrage movement started slowly. Suffragists were threatened and called unfeminine and immoral. Many of the movement's supporters were abolitionists as well, and in the years before the Civil War, ending slavery took priority over women's voting rights. After the Civil War, Congress introduced the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to grant citizenship to African Americans and voting rights to African American men. Leaders of the woman suffrage movement wanted these amendments to give women the right to vote as well. They were disappointed when established politicians refused. The debate over these two amendments split the movement into two groups: the New York City-based National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869, and the Boston-based American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. The first group wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment. The second believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first. This split weakened the suffrage movement. By 1900, only Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado had granted women full voting rights. 5) What was the goal of the second group, the American Woman's Suffrage Association? convincing state gravit govern lo lote First 6) Given that there were 48 states in the USA at the time of these two movements, which strategy would have been able to allow women to vote more quickly? 1) What is suffrage? Also know these terms: FRANCHISE = SUFFRAGE 2) Why do suppose such harsh words as "unfeminine" and "immoral" were used to describe the women's right to vote? 3) Why do you suppose the "established male politicians" limited the right to vote to men? 4) What was the goal of the first group, the National Woman's Suffrage Association, when it came to legalizing the vote for women?

Name: Anastasija Woman Suffrage Period: Bezruchenke Vocabulary: Unfeminine - not having or showing qualities traditionally associated with women. Vocabulary: Immoral -not good or right: morally evil or wrong. Woman Suffrage GUIDING QUESTION Why did the progressives support the woman suffrage movement? At the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton convinced the delegates that winning suffrage- the right to vote-should be a priority. Decades later, this right still had not been gained. It became a major goal for female progressives. Early Challenges The woman suffrage movement started slowly. Suffragists were threatened and called unfeminine and immoral. Many of the movement's supporters were abolitionists as well, and in the years before the Civil War, ending slavery took priority over women's voting rights. After the Civil War, Congress introduced the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to grant citizenship to African Americans and voting rights to African American men. Leaders of the woman suffrage movement wanted these amendments to give women the right to vote as well. They were disappointed when established politicians refused. The debate over these two amendments split the movement into two groups: the New York City-based National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869, and the Boston-based American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. The first group wanted to focus on passing a constitutional amendment. The second believed that the best strategy was convincing state governments to grant women the right to vote first. This split weakened the suffrage movement. By 1900, only Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado had granted women full voting rights. 5) What was the goal of the second group, the American Woman's Suffrage Association? convincing state gravit govern lo lote First 6) Given that there were 48 states in the USA at the time of these two movements, which strategy would have been able to allow women to vote more quickly? 1) What is suffrage? Also know these terms: FRANCHISE = SUFFRAGE 2) Why do suppose such harsh words as "unfeminine" and "immoral" were used to describe the women's right to vote? 3) Why do you suppose the "established male politicians" limited the right to vote to men? 4) What was the goal of the first group, the National Woman's Suffrage Association, when it came to legalizing the vote for women?