Women’s Suffrage Movement and Key Events

What event in 1848 marked the beginning of the organized women’s rights movement, and who helped lead it?

• The ratification of the 15th Amendment led by Harriet Tubman

• The Seneca Falls Convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

• The Civil War draft protests led by Susan B. Anthony

• The founding of the NAACP led by Ida B. Wells

Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony oppose the 15th Amendment?

• It gave voting rights to immigrants

• It removed voting rights from free Black men

• It gave voting rights to Black men but not to women

• It required property ownership to vote

What major actions did suffragists take between 1910 and 1918 to draw attention to women’s right to vote?

• Parades, marches, and picketing

• Boycotts, strikes, and newspaper shutdowns

• Court trials and Supreme Court cases

• Foreign protests and international treaties

What finally made the women’s suffrage amendment become part of the U.S. Constitution, and when did it officially happen?

• Congress passed it in 1878 and it was ratified in 1880

• It was added during Reconstruction in 1870

• It was ordered by the Supreme Court in 1915

• States approved it after World War I, officially ratified in 1920