KQ2: Women's suffrage
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- Created on: 14-03-17 09:07
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- How and why did women gain greater political rights from 1865-1960
- Opposition
- Catholics saw suffrage as weakening the family.
- Southern Democrats disliked female suffrage.
- The National Association for women Suffrage was founded in 1911
- The idea of opposing suffrage lived long and surfaced again in the opposition to equality in 1960
- Some women fought against surrage campaigns as they didn't want change and equality.
- The voting issue
- Late 1880's to early 1900's was a time of small but steady progress
- Susan B. and 150 others put the 14th and 15th amendments to the test and tried to vote in 1871/1872.
- They were all later arrested for "electoral malpractice"
- The supreme court judge refused them the right to speak and forced the jury to find them guilty as well as charged the women with a hefty fine.
- They were all later arrested for "electoral malpractice"
- Twenty states permitted only widows with school aged children to vote
- Suffrage organisations
- American Women Suffrage Association weakened the position of women due to their divide
- National Women's Suffrage Association founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cody Stanton.
- The NWSA and the AWSA eventually merged together forming the NAWSA in 1890.
- Progress in some states
- In Utah, Mormans wanted to show polygamy
- Some Mormon women were enthusiastic workers for the franchise (the right to vote)
- Political structure gave women more opportunities for progress
- Opposition
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