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Section 3 Notetaking Study Guide
Question to Think About As you read Section 3 in your textbook and take notes,
keep this section focus question in mind: How did women gain new rights?
Use these charts to record key information from the section. Some information has
been filled in to get you started.
Women’s Suffrage
Seneca Falls
Convention (1848)
Importance: Marked the start of an organized women’s rights
movement in the United States.
National Woman
Suffrage
Association
Goal: Passage of _____________________________________
constitutional amendment giving women the
___________________________________________________
right to vote
Founders: ___________________,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ____________________
Susan B. Anthony
Western states
By the late 1800s, women won voting rights in _______________,
Wyoming
________________,
_________________,
and ______________.
Colorado
Idaho
Utah
Reasons for
increased support
for women’s
suffrage
• More women _________________________
and demanded
worked outside the home
____________________________.
a say in making laws
• New leaders: ____________________,
___________________
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
• A detailed strategy to _______________________________
win suffrage state by state
Nineteenth
Amendment
Ratified: 1920
What It Did: _______________________________________
gave women the right to vote
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New Opportunities
Higher Education
• Women began to earn advanced degrees .
Clubs and Reform
• At first women’s clubs focused on advancing ________________________.
women's knowledge
• The focus of many switched to social reforms:
1. raised money for ______________,
_________________,
and _______________.
parks
libraries
schools
2. pressed for laws to __________________________________,
to
protect women and children
___________________________________,
and to ____________________________.
ensure pure food and drugs
win the vote
• Racial barriers forced _______________________________
to form their own clubs.
African American women
Temperance
Temperance
Campaign against _______________________
alcohol
Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union
Goal: ___________________________________________
ban on the sale of liquor (prohibition)
Led by: ______________________,
_____________________
Carrie Nation
Frances Willard
Eighteenth
Amendment
Ratified: ________
1919
What It Did: ___________________________________________
ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Refer to this page to answer the Chapter 15 Focus Question on page 246.
Unit 6
Chapter 15
Section 3
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