Examine the impact of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and assess the connection between suffrage, citizenship, and public life. Explore how people applied or failed to apply constitutional principles and civic virtues in the women’s suffrage movement.

• Background Essay: The Movement Unites (1890-1920)
• Handout A: Decision Time
• Handout B: Sorting Arguments
• Handout C: What’s the Plan?
• Handout D: Harry T. Burn Newspaper Interview
• Handout E: Suffrage by State
• Handout F: Carrie Chapman Catt Speech Excerpt
• Appendix A: Amending the Constitution
• Appendix B: Timeline and Quotes
• Appendix C: Timeline Cards
• Appendix G: A Pathway for Change
• Answer Key

FOR FURTHER READING

• Abbot, Lyman “Why Women Do Not Wish the Suffrage,” The Atlantic, September (1903)
• Addams, Jane “The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women,” NAWSA Convention (1900)
• Addams, Jane “If Men Were Seeking the Franchise” (1913)
• Addams, Jane “Women’s Memories—Challenging the War” (1916)
• Flexner, Eleanor and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States (New York: Belknap, 1996), Chapters 16, 19-23.
• Howe, Marie Jenney “An Anti-Suffrage Monologue” (1913)
• Kelley, Florence “Working Women’s Need of the Ballot,” NAWSA Convention, (1898)
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady “Solitude of Self” (1882)
• Stetson, Charlotte Perkins [Later Gilman], “The Ballot is an Improver of Motherhood”, NAWSA Convention (1896)