Unit 1: Women’s Suffrage

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THE INDIAN WOMEN: We whom you pity as drudges reached centuries ago the goal that you are now nearing

We, the women of the Iroquois: Own the Land, the Lodge, the Children; Ours is the right to adoption, life or death; Ours is the right to raise up and depose chiefs; Ours is the right to representation in all councils; Ours is the right to make and abrogate treaties; Ours is the supervision over domestic and foreign policies; Ours is the trusteeship of tribal property; Our lives are valued again as high as man's

"The shoemakers' strike in Lynn, Mass.

—Procession, in the midst of a snow-storm, of eight hundred women operatives joining in the strike, with banners, inscriptions, and working tools, preceded by the Lynn City Guards with music, and followed by four thousand workmen, firemen, March 7, 1860."

The Revolution; The Organ of the National Party of New America Principle, Not Policy – Individual Rights and Responsibilities

or the triumphs of Woman ’ s rights Susan B. Anthony

Newspaper article headlines from the

New York Herald

on the Eleventh National Women ’ s Rights Convention, May 10, 1866 Newspaper article headlines from the

New York World

on the Equal Rights Association Convention, May 14, 1869

Woman Suffrage in Wyoming Territory. Scene at the polls in Cheyenne

The Woman

s Bible

By Elizabeth Cady Stanton Chapter X “ 1776 —Retouching an Old Masterpiece—1915"

DANGER! Women's suffrage would double the irresponsible vote It is a MENACE to the Home, Men's Employment and All Business poster, 1912 The New Woman – Wash Day stereo card, 1901 A Pilgrimette ’ s Progressette editorial cartoon, 1914

National American Woman ’ s Suffrage Association postcard, 1909 Kellogg ’ s Toasted Corn Flakes advertisement, 1914

Wifey is a Real Suffragette

By C.W. Custer sheet music, 1919

Amendment Wins in New Jersey News from the Front

Mothers need the Vote to Protect their Homes and Children.

Working Women need the Vote to regulate conditions under which they work.

Tax paying Women need the Vote to Protect their Property.

By courtesy of the Woman ’ s Journal, Boston