Womens Suffrage Movement

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Womens Suffrage Movement

• 1848-1920

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Womens Suffrage Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Declaration of Sentiments
• Great Women in the U.S. Suffrage Movement
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucy Stone
• Susan B. Anthony
• How it has affected us today

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1848 Seneca Falls Convention

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
  organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
• Over three hundred men and women attended.
• Here, the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted.
• The Seneca Falls Convention is considered to be
  the beginning of the Suffrage movement.

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The Declaration of Sentiments

• The Declaration of Sentiments was a document
  drafted and signed by over 300 men and women.
• It detailed the injustices of women and the
  resolutions for them.
• Including the right to vote was the most
  controversial topic discussed at this convention.

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Great Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton started off as an
  abolitionist but was appalled when she was forced
  to sit in the balcony at an anti-slavery
  convention. It is here that she started to
  advocate for womens rights.

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Great Women Lucy Stone

• Lucy Stone was the first woman to keep her last
  name in when she married. Lucy was an advocate
  of womens rights and refused to marry her
  husband unless they created their own marriage
  agreement. This marriage agreement allowed Lucy
  to be an equal partner, and not submissive.

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Great Women Susan B. Anthony

• Susan B. Anthony was originally an abolitionist,
  but became an advocate of womens rights when she
  heard Lucy Stone speak. Although she was an
  advocate of all womens rights, she was
  especially concerned with the right to vote. She
  was so instrumental in obtaining this right that
  the 19th amendment is named after her.

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How the Suffrage Movement has
affected us today

• Title 9
• Title 9 was part of the Civil Rights Act that
  declared men and women must have equal
  opportunity to compete in sports in federally
  funded schools. This has affected many girls and
  women around the United States by giving them an
  equal opportunity to compete in sports.

• The glass ceiling
• The glass ceiling is the idea that there is an
  invisible barrier that keeps women from
  leadership positions. There is some debate to
  whether or not this actually exists. There has
  yet to be a woman president, but women do exist
  in the senate and the house of representatives.

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