Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Women's
Rights
Movement
- Cult of
Domesticity
- Piety
- Religion:
women were
to act how
their religion
told them to
- Purity
- Virginity:
Virginity was a
Gift, and they
were to remain
pure till marriage.
It was the wife's
job to keep the
husband happy.
- Domesticity
- Homemakers: It
was the woman's
job to keep up
with the
housework, her
place was in the
home while the
husband worked.
- Submissivness
- Submit:
Women always
were to submit
to their
husbands and
do what was
asked of them,
including how
they looked and
dressed.
- Susan B. Anthony &
Elizabeth Stanton
- 1850:
- Susan and
Elizabeth became
life long friends &
activists. They
unsuccessfully
lobbied congress
for the 14th &
15th
ammendment
- 1869:
- National
Women's
Suffrage
Association
(NWSA)
started.
- 1878:
- NWSA put
efforts into
individual
states to start
a ripple effect
nationwide.
- 1899:
- Wyoming was
the first state
that allowed
women to
vote.
- August 26th, 1920:
- The 19th amendment
provided full voting
rights for women
nationally. It was
ratified when
Tennessee was the
36th state to approve
it.
- March 13, 1906
- Susan
Brownell
Anthony Died
March 13, 1906 at
the age of 86
- October 26, 1902
- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
died October
26, 1902 at the
age of 86
- Alice Paul
- 1909
- joined the WSPU
and began
participating in
demonstrations
and marches
- Paul was arrested
seven times and
imprisoned three
times, and participated
in hunger strikes while
in prison. (while with
WSPU)
- accepted an
organizer's job in
the WSPU and
was sent to
various cities to
prepare the
ground for
demonstrations
and symbolic
events
- 1913
- Her first big project
was organizing the
Woman's Suffrage
Parade in Washington.
this was a day
before President
Wilson's inauguration
- 1916
- Paul formed the
Congressional Union and
then, the National
Woman's Party (NWP)
- 1917
- United States entered World War I,
People thought the picketing Silent
Sentinels were being disloyal. In June, 1917,
picketers were arrested on charges of
"obstructing traffic."
- Paul began a hunger strike. This led to her
being moved to the prison's psychiatric ward
and being force-fed raw eggs through a feeding
tube
- August 1920
- The 19th Amendment to the USA
Constitution was ratified, originally it
was not going to be passed, but a
senator from Tennessee changed his
vote when he received a telegram
from his mother asking him to
support women's suffrage
- July 9, 1977
- Alice Paul died
at the age of 92.