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Why women weren’t allowed to vote

Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law

Women were not allowed to go to college

Married women could not own property

Women decided that they should be allowed to vote just like anyone else. Many women worked together to encourage the government to change the law and pass the 19th amendment to the Constitution.

Nineteenth Amendment

Section 1: The right of citizens of the

United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. 

Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 

Methods // StrategiesParadesMarchesSilent vigilsHunger strikes

Civil disobedience

ProtestsLobbyingLecturedWrote Letters

Protests

This protest was in Washington, D.C. in 1913.

• This picture shows a protest march in New York in 1913.

• This protest was in Washington, D.C. in 1913.

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Civil DisobedienceWomen spoke out for suffrage from horse-

drawn wagons and street corner soapboxes. Some discussed politics in genteel tea

parties, others were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front of the White House.

Suffrage is the right to vote in public affairs.

Important Players

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), abolitionist, temperance advocate, and later president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, who joined with Stanton in 1851 to promote woman suffrage; proposed the constitutional amendment passed many years after her death. attempted to cast a vote, hoping to be arrested. She was arrested and indicted for "knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States." Found guilty and fined, she insisted she would never pay a dollar of it. Susan B. Anthony’s Petition To Congress

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1865 to 1893; author of the woman's bill of rights, which she read at the Seneca Falls, New York, convention in 1848; first to

demand the vote for women.

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), Quaker reformer and preacher, who worked for abolition, peace, and equality for women in jobs and education; organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention, which launched the women's rights movement.

Ratification on June 10, 1919 (yellow) Ratification from June 16, 1919 to July 28, 1919 (chartreuse) Ratification from August 2, 1919 to December 15, 1919 (aqua) Ratification from January 6, 1920 to March 22, 1920 (gray-green) Ratification on August 18, 1920 (gray)

Order of Ratification of the 19th Amendment

The War of the RosesThe 19th Amendment needed one more state to pass it

to be ratified. Tennessee was that state.Tennessee was the site of a great political battle called

The War of the Roses.People against the amendment

wore red roses and people forthe amendment wore yellow roses.

On August 18, 1920, Tennesseeratified the amendment--the result ofa change of vote by 24 year-oldlegislator Harry Burn (a member of the

Tennessee General Assembly) who broke the deadlock vote in favor of ratification…at the insistence of his elderly mother.

Rep. Harry BurnOn August 18, 1920,

Tennessee ratified the amendment--the result of a change of vote by 24 year-old legislator Harry Burn.

A blatant red rose on his breast, Harry Burn--the youngest member of the Tennessee Assembly--suddenly broke the deadlock. Despite his red rose, he voted in favor of the bill. The house erupted into pandemonium. With his "yea," Burn had delivered universal suffrage to all American women.

This photograph from the "Ratification Issue" of the Nashville Tennessean shows the Senate chamber at the moment that the clerk counted the historic vote on women's suffrage. With this vote, Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to approve the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote.

Rep. Harry BurnThe outraged opponents to the bill beganchasing Representative Burn around theroom. In order to escape the angry mob,

Burn climbed out one of the third-floor windows of theCapitol. Making his way

along aledge, he was able to save himself by hiding in the

Capitol attic. Tennessee State Capital Building

Representative Harry T. Burns

Passage of the 19th Amendment1. In 1848, Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Fall, NY,

Conference2. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Seneca Falls, NY,

demanded the right for women to vote3. In 1851, Susan B. Anthony petitioned Congress to pass the

19th Amendment to the US Constitution4. In 1878, the amendment was introduce to Congress5. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to

support an amendment, the political balance began to shift in favor of the vote for women

6. On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment.

7. On June 4, 1919, the Senate passed the amendment.8. on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to

ratify the amendment, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states.

Reminder - The 19th Amendment

Text of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States"The right of citizens of the United States to

vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

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