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1. The first women's convention ever held in the United States
2. Activists gathered to discuss women's condition and form plans for achieving voting rights for women
3. Attendees wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

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The National Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed the 15th Amendment because it didn't include women.

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The American Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell in 1869. Supported the 15th Amendment.

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The opposing groups (NWSA and AWSA) merged together to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. They wanted to win suffrage one state at a time, and to pass a constitutional amendment.

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1. Suffragists attempted voting and filing lawsuits when they were rejected
2. Susan B. Anthony was arrested and put on trial after voting in 1872
3. Attention was brought to the movement, and aided in its popularity gain

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1. Many Anti-suffragists were upper-class women who thought that politics was something that women shouldn't be involved in
2. Around 300 activists attended the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
3. The Supreme Court in 1875 (Minor vs. Happersett) ruled that the U.S. Constitution didn't owe anyone the right to suffrage.
4. By the time that the 19th Amendment was ratified, over half of the states had given women limited rights to vote thanks to the efforts made by NAWSA (almost the entire Western United States)

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1. Large groups of women began protesting at the White House (the first people to do so), and police began arresting them for disrupting traffic.
2. Alice Paul (leader of NWP) organized hunger strikes as a form of protesting from within the prison
3. Upon seeing reports of how the women were being treated in jail, public support and sympathy grew

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- Tried various times to introduce an amendment for women's suffrage and was denied every time.
- Held anti-slavery rallies and helped fugitive slaves to escape, while also gathering signatures to pass the 13th Amendment
- died in 1906

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- A leader during the women's rights movement, well known for her writings in the Declaration of Sentiments
- Assisted Susan B. Anthony in collecting signatures to pass the 13th Amendment
- died in 1902

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The National Woman's Party was led by Alice Paul, and used more aggressive strategies than other organizations including:
- Focusing on passing a Constitutional Amendment (rather than state by state)
- Questioning President Wilson's stance on the movement
- Using "un-ladylike" practices from British suffragettes (ex. protesting)

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- Led the NWP
- Organized protests with women and other members of the NWP
- Refused to support President Wilson unless he supported the movement
- Led the Silent Sentinels as they marched and displayed banners in protest

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Congress ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, stating that all U.S. citizens have the right to vote regardless of sex. However, the 19th Amendment only granted voting rights to white women, and women of color wouldn't gain the right until Congress passed The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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"And if colored men get
their rights, and not colored
women theirs, you see the colored
men will be masters over the
women, and it will be just as bad
as it was before.”
- Advocate for temperance, abolition, and women's rights

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Declaration Of Independence - "The role and responsibility of the government is to protect the rights of the people"

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Declaration Of Independence - "The role and responsibility of the government is to protect the rights of the people"

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At this time, the government was doing a poor job at recognizing and protecting women's rights (more specifically to vote). This resulted in persistent attempts to vote and protests from various different upset people. (an example being the hunger strikes)

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Foundations of Democracy- "Equality of all people"

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Foundations of Democracy- "Equality of all people"

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It's contradicting when one of the factors that the government is built on is blatantly ignored as much as this foundation was, the government knew full well that they were restricting rights from people that deserved them yet insisted that they kept them from voting. The equality of all people was something the government had been struggling with around that time before the movement started as well, so it would make sense that it was such a relevant topic.

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Foundations of the U.S. Constitution- Limited Government

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Foundations of the U.S. Constitution- Limited Government

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This ideal is relevant to this movement as the government was controlling women's rights and abilities at the time. The movement focuses on suffrage, something the government had been denying to women for a while, which shows that the government had too much power over citizens than the ideals entail.

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1. Businesses that employed children thought that women would vote to remove child labor
2. Brewers believed that women would vote to ban alcoholic beverages
3. Anti-suffragists believed that women were not educated enough to vote and that they would become too masculine.