Political

Question 1

1875 SC

what
but
helped by

Early pioneers

Answer 1

1875 SC confirmed that women could vote in local legisatures

But confirmed women couldn’t run for congress

Helped achieved by the NWSA

Wyoming- 1869
Utah- 1870

Question 2

NAWSA

stand for

merging of

when merged

key figures

Answer 2

National American Women Suffrage Association

NWSA and AWSA

merged in 1890

Elizabeth Cady Stainton and Susan B. Anthony

1905: 17k
1917: 100k

Question 3

political position in 1865

Answer 3

Active in anti-slavery movement. support the 15th Amendment until only AA men get the vote at which point they retract support

Question 4

NACW

stand for

founded

members

what

Answer 4

National Association of Coloured Women

1896

1918: 300k

anti-lynching laws as well as women’s suffrage.

Question 5

NAOWS

founded

Answer 5

National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage

1911

feared that political equality would disadvantage those content in their traditional domestic roles

Question 6

WCTU

founded in

by 1880,

by 1920

Persuaded…

Answer 6

Womens christian temperance union

1874

by 1880, in 24 states, membership of 27k women

By 1920, 800k members

Persuaded local legislatures to ban alc through lobbying and mass meetings

Unity: different reason but same cause
- AA- strong religious beliefs
-S. to stop AA drinking (violent and uncontrollable)
- N. suffrage

Question 7

19th Am
when
what
who
Bc of
effect

Answer 7

1920
gave women the right to vote
wilson

Bc of:
WW1- Carrie Chapman Catt insisted women would support war effort is suffrafge was introduced

CUWS- militant members hunger strike and vote illegaly- attention
HOWEVER the actions of militant women such as Alice Paul alienated many women, and made the cause undesirable

Extension of the movement- the decisions of individual states to give women the vote put pressure on the federal government to do the same nationally. by 1918 women were allowed to vote in national elections in 20 states

But also symbol of US democracy as fighting for democracy
confirmation that women were free and equal citizens

Question 8

19th Am limitations

Answer 8

They still had to conform to the male dominated society and vote how their husbands favoured

NWSA became League of Women Voters- attrracted 10% of NWSA membership

poor turnout - 1923 Chicago elections non voters women outnumbered men 2:1

not allowed to participate in politics

divided on how to use vote- those who wanted to campaign on women’s issues eg Jane Addams or turn women into equal citizens and participants (carrie chapman Catt)

Question 9

first female governor

Answer 9

1928

Wyoming

she suceeded her husband

Question 10

Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage.

Answer 10

became the National Women’s Party in 1913.

militant members of the CUWS went on hunger strike and voted illegally. this attracted attention and sympathy, creating profile for the cause

Question 11

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 11

introduced by national womens party in 1923

wanted to overcome laws limiting full participation in economic and political life

Question 12

Opponents to ERA

Answer 12

Florence Kelly

Women will always need many laws different to those needed by men

Question 13

Betty Friedan

Answer 13

I want something more than my husband and my children and my home”. She started the National Organisation for Women (NOW). promoted that women needed to ‘get out and get equality’. wanted complete social and economic equality, not just political.

Question 14

NOW

Answer 14

1966

full participation in the mainstream of American society’ and a truly equal relationship with men’

New feminist campaigns worked within the existing system and wanted national laws

Question 15

first female vp and sc

Answer 15

1984

geraldine ferraro

1981- first female sc judge