Suffrage
the right to vote
Women's Right Convention
First meeting organized in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 to discuss the women's right to vote and draft the "Declaration of Women's Rights and Sentiments.
Declaration of Women's Rights and Sentiments
Document drafted and approved declaring the women's desire for equality and the right to vote. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal....
Nineteenth Amendment
Granted women national suffrage in 1920.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815-1902
Suffragist who worked closely with Susan B. Anthony to campaign for women's equality including the right to vote. A suffragist who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Iss
Susan B. Anthony
Suffragist who worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to campaign for women's equality including the right to vote. She was arrested for voting in the 1872 campaign under the rules of the 14th Amendment.
Taxation without Representation
Single women were taxed on their earnings, however, they were not permitted to vote which meant they could not select a political representative that would represent their beliefs.
Right to Assemble
First Amendment right that allows people to meet to discuss and express their beliefs, ideas, or feelings, especially in a political context.
Inequality
Injustice or partiality
Humans as Property
In the 1800's, women were considered "extensions" of their husbands. All a woman owned, earned, and even her children were her husband's property.
National American Women's Suffrage Association
1890 ~ Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Inalienable Rights
rights that can not be taken away.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Wyoming Territory
was the first to offer women unrestricted suffrage in 1869.
Esther Morris
Got vote for women in Wyoming territory. She was the first women Peace of Justice.
Lucretia Mott
an American Quaker, abolitionist, and women's rights activist, she helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Silent Sentinels
group of women under Alice Paul who picket at the white house, wear sash of their college, making a statement they're educated and deserve full and equal rights
Alice Paul
United States feminist (1885-1977), head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her wa
Harry Burn
was a republican who was the youngest member of the TN general assembly. After receiving a letter from his mother supporting women's suffrage, Burn changed sides and cast his vote for the amendment. His vote gave the pro-suffrage legislators the number ne
Sojourner Truth
former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership and reluctantly supported women's suffrage.
Amelia Bloomer
revolted against the uncomfortable "street sweeping" attire of woman by creating and promoting semi-masculine, short skirts with Trousers, an attire known as "bloomers