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=Period 6=

The Problem(s):
For many years, women had been denied equal rights in many ways in America. During 50 years after 1848, some progress in giving women equal rights was made. Passing laws and decisions made by courts about person and property rights of married women were made. Before the 1850s, married women had very few legal rights. They were not allowed to sue in courts, make contracts, own property from marriage or have any legal claim to their children.

Most of these problems were solved 1900s, but women and the leaders of Women’s Rights Movements felt strongly that if women had the right to vote that all of these problems would be corrected. If women could vote than they could have some control over who was elected. Women might then have a chance to be in office.

Most states had denied women the right to vote, except for a few including Wyoming.

The Solution(s):
One of the main goals of the people who wanted women's rights was to give women the power to vote. The **Suffragetes** were people pushing for women's right to vote. A leader of this group was **Alice Paul**. She led the congressional committee of the [|National|American Woman Suffrage Association] (NAWSA). **Carrie Chapman Catt** faught for the **19th Amendment** to pass which would give women the right to vote. Following the amendment people pushed to have a law passed that would give women the ability to serve on juries.

Women's **education** was an important topic in this time. Women started to play an important role in education. By the 1900s women were the majority of teachers. The government would help the action of getting female teachers by funding colleges to permit women to enroll.You would have to encourage women to get a more professional career.

Women should take a prominent role in active government. If women gain these positions in politics they will influence more people to fight for women’s rights as well. Soon the idea will expand and women active in their community will become more and more accepted.

The Images
Suffragettes march for the right to vote in New York City on May 6, 1912. After more than 70 years of effort, women finally won the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment became law in August 1920.



Cover of the official program of the woman suffrage procession in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. Parades and protests demanding the right to vote caught the attention of the general public and of Congress, which passed the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The amendment gave all adult women the right to vote.



This Carrie Chapman Catt who fought for the 19th Amendment to pass.





The Primary Sources
//"In 1872, American woman suffragist [|Susan|B. Anthony] tried to cast a vote in the U.S. presidential election, an action that was illegal. For her trespass, she was fined $100, which she refused to pay. As in the speech presented below, which she delivered in early 1873, Anthony spoke to several audiences about the episode in her ongoing effort to secure recognition of women's right to vote in the United States."//
 * || "A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination." ||  ||
 * || "If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it." ||  ||

//"Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National// http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?countryid=undefined&nav=rlist&fulltext=women%20suffrage&entryid=253900&categorytypeid=1#|//Constitution////, beyond the power of any state to deny."- //Susan B. Anthony//

"The result of decades of political turmoil, the Nineteenth Amendment marked the culmination of the //[|//woman|suffrage movement//]// of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning in 1878 in the state of Wyoming, women had increasingly established their right to vote in local and state elections, with more and more states recognizing this right every year. On June 4, 1919, the U.S. //http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?countryid=undefined&nav=rlist&fulltext=women%20suffrage&entryid=254776#|//Congress//// adopted the Nineteenth Amendment, thus recognizing women's right to vote on the national level, as well as asserting their right to vote in all state and local elections that had not already expanded the suffrage to them. The requisite number of states had ratified the amendment by August 18, 1920, thus officially putting the amendment into effect."- The 19th Amendment


 * The Progressive Era Class Notes
 * (1997). Women's Sufferage Movement. Retrieved February 21, 2007, Web site: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bygones.com/images/SUFPARAD.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bygones.com/HISTORY3.html&h=263&w=468&sz=49&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=8LcspPrHTeBoNM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwomen%2527s%2Brights%2Bmovement%2B%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
 * (2007). ABCLIO American History. from "If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it."