19th amendment

Question 1

stat, other women, lost its cause

19th amendment and why it is a limited turning point

Answer 1

20 states had already granted franchise by 1918

campaign was limited to white mc women, wc had little political interest and polls proved the majority of women voted as their husband did, AA women voter intimindation, did little the empower, not a unified cause

in the process of getting it passed, the campaign became more practical ‘temperance and war reasons’ than a fight for equality under the law, therefore when granted, women failed to gain the equality that was supposed to come with it, no seperate sphere notion had been challenged.

Question 2

limited turning point after (divisions)

Answer 2

once the vote was granted, there were also significant issues regarding what to do with this new political influence as the suffrage movement splintered (e’g Paul radicalism wanting to pass the ERA, met with huge backlash from wc women too fearing they’d lose protective legislation and equal pay would leave them unemployed, Addams wanting to pursue social reform and Catt political reform) activism confined to mc white women and some found it excessive

Question 3

nice key fact for women in politics after the passing of the 19th amendment

Answer 3

in the 20 years after it’s passed, there were only two female state governors, both standing in for their husbands

helps pass Shepard- Towner Act made funds available for maternity and infant health, terminated in 29

Question 4

could add in one positive

Answer 4

gave women like Mary Talbert more political influence, able to use it as springboard platform to speak about lynching

Question 5

another stat of women’s political involvement

Answer 5

NAWSA made the League of Women voters after 19th and only 5% of prior members joined showing loss of momentum in cause

Question 6

Alice Paul CUWs

Answer 6

then becomes national women’s party severes from NAWSA, Paul draws up ERA in 1920 (good synthesis)
hunger strikes, sympathy and public attention to the cause

concerned many as unnatural radical, women’s enroaching politics

Question 7

KEY OPPOSITION to Suffrage

Answer 7

women’s groups against suffrage NAOWS organisation publishing that franchsie would evoke special place in the home, catholics agree

southern democrats too worried it would threaten jim crow

Question 8

GOOD final synoptic judgement

Answer 8

the franchise proved relatively futile as a turning point because it won using a domestic cause, thereby doing little to progress women out of the private sphere