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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Stanton is one of the best known leaders of the woman suffrage movement. She was close friends with Susan B Anthony, another leader in teh movement and often they traveled together. In 1848 Elizabeth helped organize the 1848 woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls.
In support of her beliefs in woman suffrage Stanton once said, "Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government". -
Secenca Falls Convention
This convention was the first meeting on behalf of women's rights in U.S. history. It was lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was aided by Lucretia Mott, a famous abolitionist. One hundred people with a majority of women attended the conference, where they discussed a Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances and Resolutions. (Columbia University). -
Women Gaining Ground in the Workplace
With the introduction of new industries such as the textile mills and sewing trades, many women were hired to fill the jobs required, but were paid substantially lower wages than their male counterparts. Also it is said that by 1869 an overwhelming majority of salespersons and cashiers in the new department stores. Also it was said that store managers considered women more polite, easier to control, and more honest than male workers (History of the United States pg505). -
Susan B. Anthony
In 1869 Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with the help of her close friend Elizabeth Stanton. Both women were determined and always ready to act in terms of bringing attention to woman's suffrage and the prejudices women faced. Susan B. Anthony once said, "Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done". (Rappaport) -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
This oganization was formed by the union of two leading associations becomeing NAWSA, or the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This group focused most of its attention to working with women's suffrage on the state and municipal levels. NAWSA made winning the right to vote its main objective and concentrated on a state-by-state approach (History of the United States pg584). -
Women Gaining the Right to Vote
The western state of Colorado was the first to grant women the right to vote. It was the turning point in result of the hard work put forth by the suffrage movement, and many other states soon folled Colorado's example. Other states that sooned followed, and allowed the vote included Utah and Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910, and California in 1911. By the year 1918, sixteen American states allowed women the vote. -
Settlement Houses
Settlement houses were designed to work as community centers that would provide guidence and services to all who would use them. Many women worked at these houses, and these included women who had freshly graduated college. These women were the first women to experience the trauma of having developed their abilites and find that society was unwilling to accept give them the oppertunities to prove themselves (History of the United States pg524). -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Click on Link, Triangle Fire In this incedent, 500 young women and girls were employed at the triangle shirtwaist factory on the top three floors of the Asch building. The girls were unable to escape when fire broke out in the cutting room on the eighth floor. A total of 146 women died in less than 15 minutes, because the owners of the company had resisted government safety regulations. -
National Women's Party
Under the leadership of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, members of the National Women's Party practice civil disobedience, aswell as picket the White House hoping for attention for their concerns of Woman's Rights. Please watch this video, as it reviwes the history of the Woman's Suffrage movement: Woman's Suffrage -
Alice Paul
A leading figure of the Suffrage movement, she was one of the great agitators for the equal rights 19th amendment and thus it was sometimes called the "Alice Paul Amendment".
She once said in support of the suffrage movement, "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote" (Lewis). -
Women in Wartime
During the war women took up the jobs that the men had to leave behind to go to war. Many women hoped that through the changes occuring in the war that many high paying jobs would begin to open up to women workers.During the war this was true due to the lack of male workers, however when the war was over most women either left their jobs voluntarily or were fired to make room for the returning veterans. Some women also worked as nurses during the war (History of the United States pg643). -
Margret Sanger - Fight for Birth Control
Margret Sanger was the lead proponent of the fight for the right of birth control. She saught to inform poor women about contraception to "help remove the burden" of large numbers of children. In 1921 Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, and later a reseach clinic (History of America text pg665). -
Women are given the Right to Vote by Federal Law
Women were granted the right to vote, after the 19th amendment to the constitution was signed into law by Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State.
