women’s suffragist movement
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Women’s Suffragist Movement. 1840-1890. Important Leaders. Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Paulina Wright Davis Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Sally Tompkins Amelia Jenks Bloomer. Susan B. Anthony. She was a founder or cofounder of: Daughters of Temperance - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Women’s Suffragist Movement
1840-1890
Important Leaders
Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Paulina Wright Davis Clara Barton Dorothea Dix Sally Tompkins Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Susan B. Anthony
She was a founder or cofounder of: Daughters of Temperance Women’s Loyal League-
1863 National Woman Suffrage
Association- 1869 Arrested for trying to vote in
Rochester, NY- 1872
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Organized Seneca Falls Convention in NY 1848
President of National Woman Suffrage Association and then National American Women Suffrage Association
Wrote Eighty Years and More and The Woman’s Bible
Paulina Wright Davis
Opened up medical field to women
Founded Una the first women’s right paper- 1853
Wrote A History of the National Women's Rights Movement published in 1871
Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix & Sally Tompkins
Nurses during the Civil War
Made nursing a respected job for women even after the war
Sally Tompkins- given the rank of captain in the Confederate Army for her work
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
She launched a new fashion (bloomers) which were designed by Elizabeth Smith Miller
She founded and edited the Lily which was an influential women’s magazine
Wrote about Iowa’s suffrage in History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1886)
Seneca Falls Convention- 1848
First Women’s Suffragist Convention Created Declaration of Sentiments Speaker- Lucretia Mott Lead to National Women’s Rights
Convention in 1851 in Worchester, Massachusetts
Some Important Events
1844- Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA) first labor union for women
1852- Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
1859- rubber was successfully produced, now condoms were available for women and they no longer had to be burdened by motherhood
1874- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is founded by Annie Wittenmyer
Civil War
Women got initiated into the workforce 500 government jobs for women Became nurses, impersonated soldiers, even spy
missions Was beneficial to women’s self esteem and let them
improve their organizational skills
13th, 14th, 15th Amendment
Women had fought to end slavery in hopes that it would lead to them getting the vote.
15th amendment didn’t include women getting to vote many were outraged
Women’s Gains
More membership in Women’s Clubs
The right to vote in many states, Wyoming allowed indiscriminate vote in 1869
More independent, such as the “Gibson Girls”
Works Cited
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