Origins of Women's Suffrage

Origins of Women's Suffrage

by Megan McGunigle

Open Ended

What lasting effects did Anthony's trial have?

Women in Public Life

The Progressive Era brought many reform movements:

• ​Temperance

• ​Child Labor Reform

• ​Civil Service Reform

• ​Civil Rights

• ​Suffrage

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​Industrialization brought women out of the house. They worked jobs outside of the home in large numbers. Ultimately allowing them to get together and enact change.

​Susan B. Anthony

• Born in February ​15th, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.

• ​Later moved to Rochester, NY

• ​She was a champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, equal pay for equal work, and equal suffrage.

• ​Traveled around the country with Elizabeth Cady Stanton giving speeches in favor of women's suffrage.

Equal Rights Association

• With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, co-founded the Equal Rights Association

• ​Started a newspaper under the organization called the Revolution

  • ​Stanton and Anthony edited the paper

• ​Anthony grew increasingly famous on her lecture circuit

  • ​Gained many supporters and opposition

​So what did she do?

• She and her sisters went to a local Barber Shop and demanded to be registered to vote.

• The plan was to be refused, so that the women could sue for damages and bring women's suffrage to the courts.

• The wome​n were registered, and able to vote.

Multiple Choice

Where was Susan B. Anthony from?

• Rochester, NY

• Seneca Falls, NY

• Adams, MA

• Birmingham, AL

Multiple Choice

True or False?: Susan B. Anthony successfully registered to vote.

• True

• False

​What happened next?

• Anthony's actions were publicized in the newspaper

• ​Three weeks later, a United States Marshall came to the Anthony family house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester. He had a warrant. The charge was knowingly wrongfully and unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.

• ​Susan B. Anthony was arrested and brought to the police station on a trolley.

• ​Anthony was later put on trial for her alleged crime

​The Trial

• The judge presiding over the trial was ​Ward Hunt

  • ​He did not allow Anthony to testify

    • ​Claimed women were not competent enough to do so

    • ​Wrote his opinion before the arguments closed

    • ​Directed the jury of all men to find her guilty

• ​When asked if Anthony had anything to say she stated,

  • ​"...you have trampled underfoot, every vital principle of our government, my natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights are all alike. Ignored, robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship".

• ​Anthony was fined $100

  • ​She never paid the fine