In the early 1800s, the United States of America

grew in size,

population,

and industry.

People also wanted

AMERICA to grow in GREATNESS.

At this time, the freedoms and rights promised in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution

and the Amendments were not given to all Americans.

Slavery was legal

in the land of the free.

There were people who wanted to ABOLISH, or

END, slavery. They were called abolitionists.

They worked for the Abolitionist Movement.

Women were NOT ALLOWED to

VOTE in the United States.

The rightto voteis called

suffrage.

The

Women’sSuffrageMovementworkedto GIVE women

the right to vote.

Anti-suffragists

Those who opposed extending the right to vote to

women were called anti-suffragists.

Many anti’s were women.

Political cartoon mocking anti’s: “O Save Us, Senators, from Ourselves!”

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Beliefs of Anti-Suffragists

• Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional

• Women were not smart or educated enough

• Women should stay at home• Women were too physically frail; they

would get tired just walking to the polling station

• Women would become masculine if they voted

In this presentation we will meet two women who fought for women to have the right to vote.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident:

that all men and women are created equal...“1848 Seneca Falls DeclarationElizabeth Cady Stanton

was a teacher who believed women should have

the same voting rights as men. She was a writer who used words to protest whatwas wrong with America and how it couldbecome better.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton became “the face” of the

Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Florence Kelley

Florence Kelley was an American social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.

These women and other men and women across the country worked long and hard to convince the government and the people of the United States that the laws should be changed.

One thing that had to be done, was to let the people of each state vote on the idea.

Finally after years of hard work, the 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution of the United States in August of 1920.

Amendment XIX

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.