Title: Suffrage Movement

Date: September 8, 2014

Write down the
Essential Question.
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
Prediction - Take a shot at the MC question below.
Use your knowledge of what we have learned about
progressivism to answer the question below. Provide
a 1 sentence justification.

Progressivism

a. was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's
causes.
b. offered little to the growing women's movement.
c. supported better treatment of women but not women's
suffrage.
d. saw racial issues as more important than women's
issues.

(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
Definition: the right to vote in
political elections

Born out of the abolition
Movement

Reasons Women Wanted
Suffrage:
Women are equal before God
Believed it was fair for all people
under a government to have a say in that government
Women pay taxes
Some women (doctors, lawyers) who couldnt vote, were
better than some men who could (convicts, lunatics, etc.)

(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
New York, 1848 first American womens rights
convention

Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls is important because it set the stage
for a furthering of women's social, political, and
civil rights.
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?

Several methods were
used to gain equal
voting rights for
women:


1. Lobbying
2. Parades and Marches
3. Pageants
4. Picketing
5. Civil Disobedience
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
TWS - Which of the 5 items listed here do you think was the most
effective in securing rights for women? Justify your response (2-3 sent)

Challenge! - In addition to your response above, which do you think
was the least effective? Why?
Lobbying

This included collecting signatures and testifying at
Congressional hearings

Trying to pressure Congress to enact change

Parades & Marches

Parades and marches were theatrical and attention getting
They aimed at changing the image of suffragettes

Alice Paul organized a famous March on Washington on the
day before President Wilsons inauguration. All the crowds
showed up to watch the protest rather than the president.

Largest march was 20,000 people

(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
Pageants
Meant to raise awareness and money
Raise morale of women & Convert
followers
Would dress up as famous historical
or mythical women or as Hope,
Charity, Freedom, etc.
NY Times reporter wrote about one
pageant, one of the most impressively
beautiful spectacles ever staged in this
country.

Picketing
Displaying signs and slogans in
populated and popular areas
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
Some women were arrested (and
wanted to be arrested) for picketing

Often their goal was to be treated
as political prisoners rather than convicts

Some refused to work in jail; Went on hunger
strikes and were force fed

T/W/S What impact would going on hunger
strike have had on the suffrage movement?
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
1910 Washington state becomes
the first to give women the vote

California, then Illinois, then New
York and Michigan followed

1919 Thirty-nine states had given women the
right to vote

Ultimate victory came in 1920 with the nineteenth
amendment

T/W/S Why do you think many Americans dont vote today,
especially considering how hard women and African-
Americans fought to get the vote?
(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?
1. What is unusual about the
comment about the trousers
for this time period? What do
the pants symbolize in the
cartoon?

2. What does the cartoon
suggest would happen to the
traditional roles of men and
women if the 19th
amendment is passed?

3. How might a supporter of
the 19th amendment argue
against the points made by
this cartoon?

(1.2.f, 1.2.g, 1.3.e)
SWBAT explore the
suffrage movement
and analyze the
process progressives
took to gain equal
voting rights for
women

DOL: Given an exit
card (80% accuracy)
SW 1. Answer 3
multiple choice
question. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph on
the following topic:
Womens Suffrage
movement

EQ: What did the
suffrage movement
have to go through
in order to secure
voting rights for
women?