PBS - The Vote Part 1: Women's Suffrage Movement

Women start to utilize the power behind being an important workforce. What do they do in order to push for the right to vote?

• Unionize and picket

• Manipulate bosses

• Marry to appease men

• The right to vote

The term 'on my soapbox' refers to what?

• Standing on a soap box delivering a speech to a crowd

• Washing the laundry upside in a soap box

• Choosing to engage in civil disobedience

• The right to vote

What is a suffragist?

• A woman who has suffered in a man's world

• A woman who fights for equal rights for women

• A woman who believes females should be in the home

• The right to vote

Like other civil rights movements, women start to purposefully do what in order to get some notice from officials?

• Get arrested

• Get divorced

• Steal voting materials

• The right to vote

Women in the United States had no legal standing as a separate entity outside of their husband. If they received money, it went to their husband. If they divorced, the husband kept all possessions and child custody. Women could also not attend higher levels of

• Education

• Cooking

• Mothering

• The right to vote

Seneca Falls, New York 1848 was an imperative moment in the Women's Liberation Movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shared her proclamation of 11 essentials women needed. This would be the first public declaration for Women's Liberation and deemed as radical. What was the most controversial demand?

• The right to own property

• The right to attend school

• The right to vote

• The right to divorce

At this time women were supposed to be complacent and work in the home without complaint. What was the first job of suffragists in the United States?

• To show men they were powerful and could overtake their political positions

• To demonstrate that women are too excitable to vote logically.

• To convince men that they could emotionally handle the right to vote.

• The right to vote

The Civil War ends in 1865 and suffragists are told that the nation cannot handle two reforms at once, including the women's right to vote and

• The black man's right to vote

• The white man's right to vote

• All people's right to vote

• The right to own property

In 1909 Harriot Stanton Blatch of New York found a way in which to get herself at the polls even though she could not actually vote. Where did officials keep the polling precincts?

• Cigar shops

• Saloons

• Both a and B

• Only in officially approved spots

By 1900 one-fifth of the paid labor force was female. Thousands more were educated at the college level and going into professions rather than the home. The fashion of this time also reflected this as they no longer wore corsets. This encapsulates the idea of the

• New Woman

• Future Bright Female

• Men Below Women

• The right to vote