suffs social studies quiz

Abigail Adams

John Adam's wife, she appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women "remember the ladies". Wrote famous letter to her husband president John Adam's saying to " remember the ladies".

Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Lucretia Mott

2 women that started the women's rights convention in 1848 in Seneca falls, ny

Susan B. Anthony

Key leader of woman suffrage movement. National organizer; arrested for voting

Carrie Chapman Catt

Part of NAWSA. "Winning plan". Tried to convince president by peaceful polite tactics. ( state by state, lobbying)

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

Founded the National Women's Party, picketing White House, hunger strikes

Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell

Linked suffrage to racial justice

President Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States during WWI, wanted U.S. to remain neutral. Pressured by protests during WWI

Anti-suffragists

Argued politics would harm home and family

1776

" remember the ladies" ( wrote by Abigail Adams in a letter to her husband John adams urging him to consider women's rights)- early call for women's rights

1848

Seneca Falls convention - First organized women's right meeting

1869

Movement splits after 15th amendment - debate over who should get vote first

1890

NAWSA formed - unified national strategy begins

1913

Woman suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. - new tactics and national visibility. Where marchers tried to segregate the march.

1917

White House picketing and arrests - militant protests draw attention to

1920

19th amendment ratified

Catt v. Paul

Catt had a more peaceful approach, she met with the president and patiently was able to wait. Her idea was to go to state by state until every state was won over.(lobbying). Paul's approach was protests, hunger strikes while in prison, marches which was much more direct and gained more attention. She is also famous for picketing the White House.

Suffragists v. anti - suffragists

Suffragists pushed hard for the right to vote. Anti suffragists were worried the right to vote would upset their home life. They believed politics would harm their homes and families.