WGS 328 Lecture 13: WGS 328-Notes for 3:1:17

• School: CMU
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 328
• Professor: Tara Mcarthy

Document Summary

The 19th century: aftermath of civil war (nwsa and awsa) 4 million slaves were freed after the civil war. Main issues (besides economic) was political issues-what do people get. Fourteenth amendment- section 1) you have rights as a united states citizen and nobody can take those from you. Smaller but more radical of the groups. The revolution but went bankrupt after 2 years. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s jour(cid:374)al was their newspaper and was more successful. Had more success on local issues than national issues: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights a(cid:374)d wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) politi(cid:272)s (cid:894)1(cid:1012)6(cid:1013)-1890, new departure, minor vs. happersett (1875, stanton wanted to wait until the war was over, susan b. Anthony wanted to continue during the war because she feared they would loose their momentum. Strategies to get women the right to vote: get a constitutional amendment passed (needs to be ratified by 2/3 of the states) Did not succeed until 1919-1920 but stanton and anthony did try in the 1880s: supreme court cases.