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Women Suffrage

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Hello Friends,

As I was doing research for my social studies project to answer this question:

What events helped add the 19th Amendment to the Constitution? 

I was surprised to learn that some women didn’t want to vote at all.

Here’s a debate between two women, Elizabeth Cady Stranton, an activist for women’s right to vote, and Lucretia Mott, who is against passing the law that would allow women to vote:

-Elizabeth Cady Stranton: “Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” 1848

-Some women didn’t think they should be allowed to vote.  Lucretia Mott counseled against it, telling her (Straton “Why Lizzie, thee will make us ridiculous.”

-Resolution at Seneca Falls: As Stranton put it, “I persisted, for I saw clearly that the power to make laws was the right through which all other rights could be secured.”

 

 

 

Let’s think about the 19th Amendment…

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Hello friends,

I made this video slideshow about one very important issue we had in the past. I will post an update on my research but so far all I have is a question: “ What events helped add the 19th Amendment to the Constitution?” Who knows where my research will take me but I will try to stay focused on only the events that helped get their right to vote. Although it will be hard to because I first wanted to do research on the most important people who helped pass the 19th Amendment, I will still try not to get sidetracked.

I am very interested to know what it took to make it legal for women to vote. Did they have protests?  Did they have secret meetings to make a plan for action? Did men help them at all? (That’s a whole other topic, but maybe I can find out of any events where men attended to support the women.)

Please watch the video and let me know what you think.

Thank you!
NORIK