Women’s Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment
POP
Political movement, often led by western farmers, which emerged in the late 19th century. Some of the goals of this movement included the coinage of silver, increased government control over bank and railroads, and the transition of political power to the citizens. + TARIFF: A tax on imported goods + GOLDST: A monetary system in which paper money and coins are equal to the value of a certain amount of gold + GILDAG: 1870s – 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor + SUBURBS: Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people + NATIV: A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones + DUMTE: Structures, usually six to eight stories tall, that were jammed tightly against one another to accommodate from twenty-four to thirty-two families per building, giving the structure the appearance of a dumbbell when viewed from overhead. + JACRI: A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890 + SETTH: institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people + WEB: believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately, founded the NAACP + BTW: Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. + PVSF: a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal + LYNC: putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law; terror tactic to strike fear into people + NAACP: Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans. + NATIO: A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country + PANCAN: a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914) + IMP: A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. + MUC: Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public + UPS: muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. + CIVD: A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences. + 19th: Gave women the right to vote + ALICP: leader of the National Woman’s party, campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; let marches, protests, and endured forced feedings in effort to gain the right to vote for women
LAISSEZ FAIRE? government is less involved + POLITMAC: bosses would exchange FAVORS for votes and power + PROHIB: attempted to remove alcohol (ban of alcohol) in order to help with some social vice + EDUC: immigrants saw gaining an education as a way to assimilate into American culture and improve their economic standing + WOMRO: department stores and mail order catalogs help facilitate the change women’s roles from producer to consumer > see things in catalogs go into city to buy them instead of making them by yourself, buying time (amenities)
MORETIME: more time allows people to get into charity work, working outside the home, political causes, education + IMPAPP: imperialism appeal to Americans = economic (new markets and resources) and military (need for bases and re supply locations) + PROG: more efficient, less corrupt, more active in economy and more accountable to people = allowed recall votes, referendums and dire election of senators to make It more accountable + 2ARE: didn’t account problems like race relations & farmers + ALIP: she changed by going to constitutional amendment which was quicker > faster, only have to change one mind instead of 50, a state could change their minds a few years down the road + ROOS: walk softly & carry a big stick + RECVOT: A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official’s term of office has ended.
ESSAY
P1 – THESIS STATEMENT = Going to school, working in a position of prestige in important companies, being able to vote. These are all things that women are able to do nowadays that most people underestimate. If we, counting me as a woman, can do any of these things is thanks to the Women’s Suffrage Movement who brought us to the 19th Amendment. This all started in the second half of the 19th century.
P2 – WHEN = 1. when this movement first started 2. who (in those many people) was at the roots of this movement
P3 – WHY = 1. the ideals behind this movement (having the same rights as men, being treated as equal, having the opportunity to have the same jobs, being able to receive an education and having the right to vote) 2. how women started to see their interests as important and necessary to be talked about (they become consumers instead of producers, they have more time, they start to educate themselves and worry about society and political issues)
P4 – HOW = 1. started manifesting (fasting, strikes, sitting) 2. tried first to go state by state and then with Alice Paul they went directly through the Constitution for Equal Rights
P5 – CONCLUSION = If today I am able to do many things, including simply going to school and receiving education is thanks to the Women’s Suffrage Movement that, starting in the middle of the 19th century led by many important women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony and Alice Paul brought us to the sign of the 19th Amendment. This movement fought long for obtaining the same rights and opportunities that men always had, in other words, they were seeking equality in society. From manifestations to radical strikes, women and their supporters did everything in their power to get to where we are today.