Women’s Rights Chapter 5, Lesson 4 Mr. Julian’s 5th Grade Class

Essential Question

•What were the effects of the women’s suffrage movement?

• Seneca, Falls, New York • Argonia, Kansas Places

• Lucretia Mott • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone • Susannah Medora Salter • Susan B. Anthony • Carrie Chapman Catt People

• Suffrage • Suffragist • Nineteenth Amendment Vocabulary

Women’s Roles in the 1800’s • Women were expected to care for the house and children.

• Some women took jobs as teachers or in factories but most were not allowed to work.

• Women in rural areas worked along with the men.

other rights.

Women Work for More Rights • Women were granted citizenship but few • Women were not allowed to vote, own property, and their status was not that of men.

• In 1848, Lucretia Mott Stanton met in and Elizabeth Cady Seneca Falls, New York to discuss a women’s equal rights movement.

Women Work for More Rights • The convention discussed education, jobs, and voting rights.

• Women felt it was their right to suffrage , or the right to vote.

• Women who worked for voting rights were called suffragists .

• Lucy Stone founded the American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for voting rights.

Women Work for More right to vote in 1869.

Rights • Wyoming led the country allowing women the • In 1887, Kansas allowed women to vote in local elections and in the town of Argonia, Kansas voted Susannah Medora Slater first woman mayor in the U.S.

as the • Susan B. Anthony voting rights.

also fought for women’s

Women Work for More Rights • Carrie Chapman Catt worked for voting rights. • She was a teacher from Iowa when she got involved in voting rights.

• Catt’s goal was to get congress to pass a law giving women the right to vote.

The Nineteenth Amendment • By 1912, many states allowed women the right to vote.

• As men left to fight in World War One, women filled the jobs the men left behind.

• With women doing jobs they had never done before, they were able to argue that they were as capable as men and should be able to vote.

The Nineteenth Amendment • Even though men made up all of Congress, women had made their case.

• In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote.

Other Opportunities • Women soon were able to go to college, even working as professors.

• Women were able to enter politics as well.

• Women became explorers, spies, and even astronauts.

Timeline • 1848 - The Seneca Falls convention was held • 1869 - The Territory of Wyoming led the nation in giving women the right to vote. • 1887 - The first woman was mayor elected in Argonia, Kansas.

• 1919 - The Nineteenth Amendment was passed.