AP Success - AP US History: Woman Suffrage Movement Primary Sources

voting rights for men have led to increased levels of education in society.

only wealthy women should be granted the right to vote.

women are more politically educated than men.

The decline of women's roles in public and political life.

The federal government's immediate action to grant women the right to vote.

The widespread belief that women were naturally less capable of making political decisions.

By 1884, women had achieved equal voting rights with men in most states.

The Progressive Era reforms had already been implemented by the time of Susan B. Anthony's speech.

The temperance movement had little influence on other social reform movements of the time.

Manifest Destiny to encourage westward expansion.

class struggle to promote labor rights.

scientific racism to justify women's suffrage.

Members of the Progressive movement who pushed for various social reforms.

Supporters of the 15th Amendment who fought for voting rights regardless of race.

Advocates of the temperance movement who sought to reduce alcohol consumption.