Quiz 5 votes for women terms

alice paul

• major leader of the more militant activist wing of the suffrigist movement

• helped shift the movement toward demanding a federal constitution amendment

• kay organizer of the 1913 woman suffrage procession

• she used marches, protest, and public pressure to keep suffrage in the news

• co-founded the national womans party, became the main organization pushing the most confrontational strategy

Lucy Burns

• major suffrage activist and one of alice pauls closest allies

• helped lead the militant wing of the movement

• her and alice paul woked together to push for a federal amendment

• helped found the congressional union for woman suffrage, which later became part of the national womans party

• organized, lobbied, edited the suffrigist, and helping coordinate major campaigns

• was repeatedly arrested and imprisioined for suffrage activism

Cora Smith Eaton

• One of first women connected with organized suffrave work in North Dakota

• was a physician

• climbed mount rainier in 1909 planting a banner at the summit saying votes for women

Professional suffragist

• was paid by or consistently worked for, suffrage organizations

• treated woman suffrage as a long-term political work, notjust volunteer

emma smith devoe

• pioneered the washington plan which was door to door canvassing, voter polls

• said women voting would not disrupt domestic roles

• founded national council of women voters

• had a militant style like alice paul

May arkwright hutton

• started as a cook in idaho mining campls and advocated for workers during labor disputes there

• was vice-president under Emma Smith Devoe

• clashed with Devoe over strategy

• founded the rival washington political equality league

• was someone who spoke for laundry workers and stenographers, not just professionals

• after the 19th, she pushed for women’s eight hour workday laws

hazel mackaye

wrote and directed Allegory which was performed at the 1913 procession

produced other pageants that was a highlight to suffrage heroes

charter member ofthe congressional union (later national womens party)

her family background in theater

she was creative in her activism

hazel hunkins

• high school valedictorian

• picketed in front of the white house holding signs demanding the vote even during WWI

• arrested multiple times, endured preison, force-feedings during hunger strikes

• she was a professional suffragist who risked everything

What was the significance of mountaineering to the women's suffrage campaign?

• ex; Cora Smtih Eaton 1909 Mt rainier climb: planted a “botes for women” pennant at the summit

xplain the controversy of the Washington Equal Suffrage Association of 1906. 

• There were internal strategy clashes between the vice and president

• Smtih Devoe had the washington plan

• hutton challenged her with fiery speeches

Why was Washington a pivotal state in the national woman suffrage campaign

• 5th state to grant women full voting rights

• emma smith devoe door to door plant

escribe the Allegory suffrage pageant that unfolded on the marble steps of the Treasury Building on March 3, 1913 and how it adapted to the pause in the parade? 

• dramatic living tableau staged by Hazel MacKaye at the treasury building steps suring Alice Pauls procession

Discuss the militancy of the suffrage movement in the U.S., especially between 1917 and 1919. Be able to use 2 or 3 specific examples. 

• peaked during this time under alice pauls national womans parrty

• silent sentinels

• hunger strikes

What were conditions like for women arrested for suffrage activity in the U.S.? 

• physical brutality: guards would beat women

• jail, many were put into jail for the “crimes” they commited