Warm UpWhy are issues related to sex, gender,

and gender equality difficult to talk about?

SuffrageWhat do you see

here?Around what year

do you think this photograph was taken?

How do you think the public responded?

BackgroundStarting in the early 1800s: Women involved in

abolition and temperance movements Seneca Falls Convention:1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Background15th Amendment: Government cannont deny right to

vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

Why do you think Black Men gained the right to vote before women?

Perspectives: 1869Frederick Douglas: “When women, because they are women . . . are

dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed upon the pavement . . . Then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.”

Sojourner Truth:“There is a great stir about colored men getting their

rights, but not a word about the colored women … And if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.”

Before 1910:National American Women Suffrage Association

(NAWSA)

Susan B. Anthony: Introduced legislation frequentlyElizabeth Cady Stanton: Seneca Falls

Two main strategies:1. Earn right to vote state by state 2. Try to pass Constitutional Ammendment

(Needed 36 states to ratify)

Before 1920:What do you

notice?

Is this similar to any other movement in history?

OppositionWho opposed suffrage? Why?

OppositionStaunch opposition to suffrage existed

Many were womenBeliefs: • Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional• Women were not smart or educated enough• Women should stay at home

– Voting would distract women from “duties”

• Women were too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling station

• Women would become masculine if they voted

Opposition“But that woman suffrage tends to divorce, is plain

to all who know anything of men and women. Political differences in families, between brothers, for example, who vote on differing sides, do not promote harmony. How much more inharmonious must be political differences between a husband and wife, each of whom has a vote which may be used as a weapon against the other? What is likely to be the state of that family, when the husband votes one ticket, and the wife votes another?”

-Molley Elliot Seawell, The Ladies Battle, 1911

World War 1What was the

impact of World War 1 on women?

ProhibitionDesire to create Prohibition encouraged many

women to become activists1920: 18th Amendment

Carrie “Hatchet” NationActively opposed alcoholWomen’s Christian

Temperance UnionRaged fueled by alcoholic ex-

husband30 arrests in 10 years

“a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn't like”

“rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, saturn-faced rummies.”

Smash ladies, smash!

The Anti-Saloon League16th Amendment 1913: Created an income taxEliminated need for liquor tax

Anti-Saloon league, led by Wayne Wheeler, united powerful politicians across party lines to oppose alcohol

Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie were all members

Used propaganda to associate alcohol with the Germans

Impact of ProhibitionOrganized Crime increased65,000 arrests cripple Justice System

Overcrowded prisonsInefficient police forces

Manufactures found ways around lawSpeak-EasiesBathtub GinBooze Runners

-NASCAR

The Movement for EqualityUsing the iPads, research a member of the Suffrage/Women’s Rights Movement

1st: Fill out the chart about their lifeInclude:BackgroundValuesEducationOrganizations JoinedGreatest ImpactsLife LessonsAnecdotesQuotes

2nd: Draw a cover for their (auto)biographyInclude:Creative TitlePictureShort description of their life (on back)

Women:1. Margaret Sanger2. Susan B. Anthony3. Carrie Hatchet4. Alice Roosevelt Longworth5. Katharine Dexter McCormick6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Warm UpWhat do people want after a fight?

NormalcyWorld War 1 brought increased tension to American issues such as race, gender, and labor

Following the war, Americans desired a return to “normal life”

Woodrow Wilson decided not run for reelection in 1920

Senator Warren G. Harding (R: OH) ran

Woodrow WilsonWilson suffered a stroke in 1919

Edith Wilson becomes de facto President while Wilson was bedridden

Wilson not fit to run for President

Warren G.

Warren G. Harding“Good Old Boy” from Ohio

US Senator, Republican

Ran on policy of normalcy

“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums [ineffective remedies], but normalcy; . . . not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate [calm]; not experiment, but equipoise [balance]; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”

“We want less government business and more business in government”

Election of 1920Harding dominates election of 1920

Campaign focused on normalcy, isolationism, and the economy

Begins Republican Era