Notes

corey smith

Women's Suffrage Movement
-When the united states constitution was written, only white men had the right to vote. Women were not allowed to vote under the law.
-Women also did not have many other rights such as the right to own property or to be educated for certain jobs.
-The traditional roles: Housewife, Mother, Limited education, No political influence, Women were prisoners in their own homes.
-American girls learn to read and write at the Dame schools. They could attend the Masters schools for boys when there was room.
-A Dame school was an early form of a private elementary schooll in english speaking country.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton after debate of so radical a notion, it is adopted.
-1872 11 other women held for $500 bail. Anthony herself is held.
-1870 On July 4, in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony Reads The Declaration for the Rights of Women from a podium in front of the liberty bell. The crowd cheers. later, the suffragists meet in the historic first Unitarian Church
-1878 Women suffrage Amendment first introduced in US Congress, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment, called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, is ratified by Tennessee on Augusr 18. it becomes law on August 26
-Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in adams, Early in her life she developed a sense of justice.
-Gave speeches to be involved in the whatever.
-19 amendment was about the women's rights movement.
-Lucretia Mott helped to organize and call together the first women's rights convertion in seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848.
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