Women’s

Suffrage
Ciara Clarke & Grace McAllister
Background Information
Began before the Civil War (1861).

Took nearly 100 years to win the right to vote.

Seneca Falls Convention (1848): meeting to discuss women’s rights

Reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott were in attendance.

19th Amendment ratified in 1920, allowing women the right to vote.

 Suffrage

National American Woman

Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Vocabulary Words to Congressional Union for Women

Know
19th Amendment

Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady
Suffrage
Suffrage

Right to vote in elections.

The Suffrage Movement, also known as Woman

Suffrage) was for women of the United States to get the
right to vote as well as be allowed to run for office.
19th Amendment
19th Amendment

Guarantees all women the right to vote in the United

States.

Additional information:
Ratified in 1920 (August 18)
Passed by congress on June 4, 1919
National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA)
National American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA)

American organization, created when two major

women’s right organizations merged together.

Additional information:
1890
National Woman Suffrage Association (founded by
Anthony and Stanton) and the American woman
Suffrage Association, (founded by Lucy Stone) merged
together.
Congressional Union for Women
Congressional Union for Women

American union formed to hold meeting about

movement ideas.

Additional information:
1913, led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Created after
Paul joined NAWSA.
Goal: to guarantee women’s right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Susan B. Anthony

Women’s rights activist. Played a huge role in the

women’s suffrage movement.

Additional information:
Founded National Woman Suffrage Association with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1869).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American suffragist. Leading figure of the early
women’s rights movement.

Additional information:
Created the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the
Seneca Falls Convention helped initiate the first
women’s movement.
President of the National Woman Suffrage Association
(with Anthony)
Clip of Iron Jawed Angels
This is a movie based on Women’s Suffrage in America in the 1920’s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQkcgq5XFqM
Newspaper headlines
Create your own Newspaper! Directions:
Reviewing the information and vocabulary you have been taught you will create your own
newspaper surrounding the women’s suffrage movement.
Included in your article you must:
★ Create your own newspaper name,
★ Create a headline and
★ Create your own article (paragraph).
All must be connected to the information you have been taught in today’s lesson. You are
able to look at the article given in class and use vocabulary learned throughout the lesson.
In addition, you can ask to see any slides of the powerpoint if you need additional
information.