Thursday, February 27, 2014

Women's Suffrage

Research women's suffrage, and give the definition. Also, give 5 facts about women's suffrage in the U.S. You must have different answers than your classmates. Respond to two classmates.

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  1. Women's suffrage also known as Woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to stand for office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century

    that one of Elizabeth Cady Staton's daughters, Harriot Stanton Blatch, also became an important leader in the suffrage movement?

    that actor Katharine Hepburn's mother was a prominent suffrage supporter from Connecticut?

    that American women who were jailed for demonstrating for the right to vote were force-fed in prison when they went on hunger strikes?

    that women were the first protest group in US history to picket the White House? Since then, this tactic has been used by many groups to protest for rights.

    that suffragist Inez Milholland was the first woman to have a memorial service for her held in the United States Capitol?

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  2. The women suffrage is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office. In 1893, New Zealand, then a self-governing British colony, granted adult women the right to vote and the self-governing British colony of South Australia did the same in 1895, the latter also permitting women to stand for office.Australia federated in 1901. and women acquired the right to vote and stand in federal elections from 1902.

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  3. Woman's rights is about there rights and stand for electoral office

    They couldn't vote
    They had to work only in there homes
    Woman suffrage began in 1848
    Amendment 19 is were woman got victory
    1920 is when woman got there right to do anything

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  4. Woman's suffrage also means the right to vote for woman
    The Women's voting rights became an issue in the 19th century
    possession and exercise of suffrage by women
    The right to vote
    And "The right of women to vote; exercise of the franchise by women."

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  5. The definition of women's suffrage is, the right of women to vote.
    1Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually
    2During the Civil War, and immediately thereafter, little was heard of the movement, but a strong drive for woman suffrage was mounted in Kansas
    3The woman suffrage movement was led by old stock women
    4World War I provided the final push for women's suffrage in America
    5In 1854, Washington became one of the first territories to attempt granting voting rights to women

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  6. ~ that American women who were jailed for demonstrating for the right to vote were force-fed in prison when they went on hunger strikes.
    ~ that women were the first protest group in US history to picket the White House? Since then, this tactic has been used by many groups to protest for rights.
    ~ that many early suffrage supporters, including Susan B. Anthony, remained single because, in the early 1800s, married women could not own property in their own right and could not make legal contracts on their own behalf.
    ~ They formed the Woman’s National Loyal League in 1863 to support the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery and to campaign for full citizenship for blacks and women.
    ~ In the end, a woman's right to vote was not part of the 15th Amendment. They would have to wait another 50 years for this right.
    ~ The Equal Pay Act was a victory for the women who fought for equality. Signed in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, the Equal Pay Act required private employers to give men and women equal pay for equal work.

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  7. The difiniton of women suffer is right to vote:During the 1820s and 30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States–temperance clubs, religious movements and moral-reform societies, anti-slavery organizations–and in many of these, women played a prominent role.

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    1. So why didn't the government want to give women right?

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  8. Women suffrage is the right of women to vote; female suffrage

    1) Southern women did not publicly express a desire for equal rights
    2) The American Equal Rights Association gave human right to black suffrage and women suffrage was both formed at 1866.
    3) women suffrage went from 1840-1920
    4) most women where afraid to speak for there rights.
    5) Women did many things because the voices where heard

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  9. Southern women did not care about equal rights
    The law was formed in1866

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  10. Women's suffrage (in U.S.A. also sometimes woman suffrage)[1] is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century.

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  11. The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. Under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women’s rights pioneers, suffragists circulated petitions and lobbied Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment to enfranchise women.

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  12. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.

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  13. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

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  14. 1. that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the mother of seven children? Susan B. Anthony would baby-sit Stanton's children while Stanton wrote suffrage speeches and petitions that Anthony would deliver.

    2. that one of Elizabeth Cady Staton's daughters, Harriot Stanton Blatch, also became an important leader in the suffrage movement?

    3. that many early suffrage supporters, including Susan B. Anthony, remained single because, in the early 1800s, married women could not own property in their own right and could not make legal contracts on their own behalf?

    4. that in the early 1800s, in most states, women could not have custody of their own children? According to state laws, children "belonged" to the husband. Not until the 1840s, when women began to organize to obtain legal rights and gradually laws began to change, could women own property in their own right after marriage, or obtain custody of their own children.

    5. that there is a difference between the terms "suffragist" and "suffragette?" In the United States, supporters of woman suffrage preferred and used the term suffragist. In Britain, militant supporters of woman suffrage called themselves suffragettes. When the American press, or those who opposed woman suffrage, called an American woman a suffragette, it was intended to be derogatory.

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  15. Women's suffrage made any gender able to vote and gave women more rights. June 1848 the Liberty Party, composed of only men, made women's suffrage a plank in there presidential campaign.
    Eliizabeth Cady Stanton's strong opinions didn't always make her popular. One young woman from Seneca Falls refused to ride in the same carriage, saying, "I wouldn't have been seen with her for anything, with those ideas of hers."

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  16. It was on Election Day when all the women exercise the right of voting

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  17. Women's suffrage (in U.S.A. also sometimes woman suffrage)[1] is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century.[2] National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.[3]

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  18. Woman's rights is about there rights and stand for electoral office

    They couldn't vote
    They had to work only in there homes
    Woman suffrage began in 1848
    Amendment 19 is were woman got victory
    1920 is when woman got there right to do anything

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  19. Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office.

    -Women suffrage went from 1840-1920
    -Amendment 19 is were woman got victory
    -They couldn't vote
    -They had to work only in there homes
    -1920 is when woman got there right to do anything

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  20. ~ that American women who were jailed for demonstrating for the right to vote were force-fed in prison when they went on hunger strikes.
    ~ that women were the first protest group in US history to picket the White House? Since then, this tactic has been used by many groups to protest for rights.
    ~ that many early suffrage supporters, including Susan B. Anthony, remained single because, in the early 1800s, married women could not own property in their own right and could not make legal contracts on their own behalf.
    ~ They formed the Woman’s National Loyal League in 1863 to support the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery and to campaign for full citizenship for blacks and women.
    ~ In the end, a woman's right to vote was not part of the 15th Amendment. They would have to wait another 50 years for this right.
    ~ The Equal Pay Act was a victory for the women who fought for equality. Signed in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, the Equal Pay Act required private employers to give men and women equal pay for equal work.
    ~ the law was formed in 1866.

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