Women's suffrage and rights movement strategies

rights + opportunities denied to women

vote/suffrage, public office, higher education, professional occupations, equal pay, testify, jury, married women (property rights), suing, contracts, divorce, and child custody

Strategies/Tactics used to gain woman suffrage

women suffrage parade in Washington DC the day before President Wilson's inauguration, picketing the White House during WWI which led to imprisonment in a women's workhouse then to hunger strike and to being force fed, participating in war effort which proved their importance as citizens

New Departure

illegal voting, sue, let the courts decide, argument based on the 14th Amendment

Minor v. Happersett

women are citizens, suffrage not guaranteed to citizens, states determine voting qualifications

Election of 1912

Republican candidate: Taft, Progressive candidate: T. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate: Woodrow Wilson, Socialist candidate: Eugene Debs

Progressive Platform in 1912

woman suffrage, national worker's compensation, 8 hour workday, federal child labor law, conservation, national healthcare, federal commission to regulate business