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 * __Period 3__**

- Women could not vote. They did not have suffrage. - Men went out to work while the women stayed home and watched the children. - There was a set way for women to live. Women were thought to be weak and innocent creatures, helpless and ignorant, so the men would take care of all the issues and problems outside the home. Women developed four virtues in themselves: purity, domesticity, piety, and submissiveness. Their lives were centered on morality and stability. They could not venture outside this "bubble". - Women could not enter professional fields like medicine, law and science. They got low pay and unjust chances at a good wage. The society was very sexist. - Women were not allowed to run for public office or hold a political position. So they had no say in government, yet they had to follow the laws it set. - Women did not have an equal chance at a good **education**.
 * The Problem(s)**

- **Carrie Chapman Catt** co-founded the NAWSA (The National American Women Suffrage Association) with some other like Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Catt became president of the organization in 1900, but quit in 1904 to care for her husband. In 1915, she came back with a 2-part plan to gain suffrage. - Catt's plan: the first part was to unify the campaign for the right to suffrage. She though that if all the little different groups united, they would have a stronger argument. She thought the NAWSA should launch a strong, unified campaign on both the state and national level in order to win the right to vote. The second part was to compromise for partial suffrage in some unyielding states. The plan won over Congress and the President and caused the Constitution to be amended (the **19th amendment**--guaranteeing women the right to vote). - States and the national government can pass laws allowing women to vote and serve on juries. - Women could be encouraged to get good jobs and earn good pay. - Women could be able to run for political positions. There were suffragettes (see picture below) who would picket for suffrage. They marched in Washington DC to get the attention of President Woodrow Wilson. Finally he agreed to pass the 19th Amendment. - **Alice Paul** was part of the National Women's Party and marched at DC. She held signs with her friends that said, "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?" They were some of the **suffragettes** who stood outside the gates of the White House. She was a major leader in the Women's Rights Movement.
 * The Solution(s)**


 * Images**

She helped found the NAWSA and pushed to pass the 19th Amendment. She was successful in gaining women’s right to vote.
 * Carrie Chapman Catt**

She worked hard and led the Seneca Falls Convention, and helped get rights for women. She also contributed to the NAWSA and helping pass the 19th Amendment.
 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton**

She served as the 3rd president of the NAWSA, and helped the women’s rights movement a lot.
 * Susan B. Anthony**

She was part of the suffragettes who picketed outside the White House to get the consent of President Woodrow Wilson to pass the 19th Amendment.
 * Alice Paul**

These are suffragettes who picketed outside the White House.



There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less. Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle. This world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
 * The Primary Sources**
 * -Susan B. Anthony**
 * -Susan B. Anthony**
 * -Carrie Chapman Catt**
 * -Carrie Chapman Catt**
 * -Elizabeth Cady Stanton**, quoted in the Declaration of Sentiments
 * -Elizabeth Cady Stanton**

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 * The Citations**