Women's Suffrage Cartoon 2

< This picture made me laugh because the women are suffragists and they want the same rights as men so they want to jump on the man because they think it's not fair. :)

Women's Suffrage Cartoon 1

< I don't really get why it's so funny but the old woman is standing on one leg and is trying to dance? Oh well, she looks funny b/c her face looks serious about wanting the votes for women, but her pose doesn't show it. The dog, I don't know.  :)

pro-women's suffrage poster 3

pro-women's suffrage poster 2

Women's Suffrage Cartoon 3

< I like this picture because the cartoon is funny and the caption in the picture is actually correct! :)

pro-women's suffrage poster 1

Winning Suffrage in National

National:

• 1920, the 19th Amendment was added to the US Constitution

Winning Suffrage in Texas

Texas:

• Lieutenant Governor William Hobby made a deal with the suffragists: If women campaign for him and prohibition, he will advocate women's suffrage
• 1918: Women could vote in primary elections
• Women campaigned for Hobby
• Hobby won governorship
• 1919: Texas was the 9th state to ratify the 19th Amendment

Women's Suffrage in Texas

• Women in Texas more conservative
• 1893-1896: Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA)
• 1903: Texas Women's Suffrage Association (TWSA), later called Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA)
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): popular national group in Texas

Beginnings of the Suffrage Movement

• 1848- Seneca Falls Convention

      - The first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
      - Women's rights meetings held on a regular basis

National American Women Suffrage Association

• Carrie Chapman Catt and the "Winning Plan"

      - Pro-suffrage states: Hard campaigning for national suffrage rights
      - Anti-suffrage states: Pressure politicians to let them vote in local elections

WHY ARE THE SUFFRAGETTES FIGHTING?

                         What were the suffragettes fighting for?
   
     
                                             EQUALITY!!!

A Public Sphere For Women

• Significance of women's clubs

      - For most, provided a public sphere for women without challenging the male dominated order
      - For others, introduction to political life and platform to advocate women's rights

The Club Women

• Most clubs were segregated
• Middle and upper class Black woman formed their own clubs
• Black women's clubs concerned with same social issues as white clubs as well as

      - Lynching
      - Segregation

• Popularity of women's clubs grew in 1880s
• Outlet for middle and upper class women
• Concerned with social betterment

      - Education and school reform
      - Settlement houses
      - Planting trees
      - Building hospitals

The "New Women"

During the Progressive Era, middle and upper class women took a more active role in reform movements. Why?

• Many activities moved out of the home and into factories or offices
• Children began school earlier
• Technological innovations made housework easier
• Declining family sizes

Feminism

Feminism means the advocacy of equal rights and legal protection for women.