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Women's Suffrage

Published on Nov 18, 2015

How women got the right to vote: a long journey...

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

How did women get the right to vote?

Susan B. Anthony

"Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less."

PEOPLE

The stories of Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, & Elizabeth Stanton.

Susan B. Anthony

ALICE PAUL

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

TIMELINE

FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION

Seneca Falls, NY ~ 1848

WORCESTER, MA ~ 1850

NATIONAL WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION

1872

Anthony & 15 others try to vote

1878

Anthony & Gage present "Declaration of Rights for Women"

1887

1st vote at Senate is defeated

1912 & 1915

NY parades showing 20,000 & 40,000 supporters

1917

Jeannette Rankin is 1st woman elected to Congress

1918

President Wilson shows support

AUGUST 26, 1920

Nineteenth Amendment is passed!

EFFECTS

Of the Nineteenth Amendment

NEW DECADE

The Roarin' Twenties

IMPACT

on the world

REMEMBER

What they did for our country

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