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The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey Central issue, problem, or question: How and when did New Jersey women gain the right to vote? Significance: This lesson examines the tactics and beliefs of woman suffrage advocates and opponents during the Progressive Era in New Jersey. Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies: Standard 6.4 (United States and New Jersey History). I-2 (Discuss the rise of the Progressive Movement). Objectives: After learning about the woman suffrage movement in New Jersey and examining primary source documents, students will be able to: • Identify significant people and events in the history of woman suffrage in New Jersey and in the United States. • Describe the roles New Jersey women played in the national suffrage movement. • Analyze pro- and anti-suffrage arguments. Abstract: Middle school students will learn about Alice Paul and her tactics as leader of the National Woman’s Party and will write an imaginary interview of or conversation with Paul. High school students will analyze pro- and anti-suffrage arguments and write an imaginary dialogue between a supporter and an opponent of woman suffrage just before the 1915 New Jersey referendum. Duration: One or two 45-minute class periods. Sources Secondary Sources Delight Dodyk online lecture: “Suffragists and Progressives: The New Jersey Connection,” July 2005; available in the “Woman Suffrage” section of the New Jersey History Partnership Project website, http://nj-history.org. 1 Sally Hunter Graham, “Woodrow Wilson, Alice Paul, and the Woman Suffrage Movement,” Political Science Quarterly 98 (Winter 1983-1984): 665-79. Neale McGoldrick and Margaret Crocco, Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey (Trenton, 1993). New Jersey Women's History website, http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/ Library of Congress, “Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party,” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/index.html Library of Congress, “Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921,” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html The Progressive Banner, program 9, New Jersey Legacy television series, co-produced by the New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network, 2003, videocassette. Primary Sources Anne Herendeen, “What the Home Town Thinks of Alice Paul,” Everybody’s Magazine, October 1919. http://nj-history.org/proRef/womanSuff/pdf/womanSuffDoc1.pdf “Well, boys, we saved the home,” Trenton Times, 22 October 1915. http://nj-history.org/proRef/womanSuff/pdf/womanSuffDoc2.pdf “Suffragists in Ballot Parade,” Newark Evening News, 28 October 1912. http://nj-history.org/proRef/womanSuff/pdf/womanSuffDoc3.pdf Leaflets by the New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 1915. http://nj-history.org/proRef/womanSuff/pdf/womanSuffDoc4.pdf Materials: Teachers will need copies of the primary source documents listed above. Background: In 1776, female property holders (a limited group due to the common law principle of coverture) were accorded the right of suffrage by New Jersey’s first constitution, but this situation was short-lived. New Jersey women, along with African American males, were disfranchised by legislative act in 1807. It would take more than one hundred years and many decades of struggle for 2 New Jersey women to gain the right of suffrage under the Nineteenth, or Susan B. Anthony, Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association predated the Progressive Era, it was during this period that the state’s suffrage movement gained momentum, forming new societies and drawing new members from the women’s club, temperance, and trade union movements. Local suffragists borrowed tactics pioneered by the more radical English suffrage movement, organizing open air rallies and suffrage parades in New Jersey. In the 1890s, suffrage supporters focused their energies on amending New Jersey’s constitution, promoting woman suffrage as a Progressive measure. In 1897, a proposed amendment that would have allowed women to vote in local school elections was defeated. A referendum on full suffrage was likewise voted down in 1915. Blaming liquor interests, voter fraud, the Catholic Church, and machine politics for the defeat, New Jersey suffragists shifted their attention to the national scene. They believed that the surest means to achieve woman suffrage in New Jersey was through ratification of the Anthony Amendment. New Jersey women participated in campaigns by both the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the more radical Congressional Union, later the National Woman’s Party (NWP), led by New Jersey-native Alice Paul. In 1917, the suffrage movement was split into two camps when the NWP refused to adopt the NAWSA strategy of supporting Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and volunteering to work for the war effort. Instead, NWP activists from across the country began picketing the White House, silently carrying banners that read: "Mr. President What Will You Do for Woman Suffrage?" and "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?” Hundreds of NWP demonstrators were arrested for obstructing traffic, including several New Jersey women, among them Alison Turnbull Hopkins of Morristown, whose husband J. A. H. Hopkins had been a prominent Wilson supporter during the 1916 presidential election. Phoebe Scott of Montclair was jailed for seventeen days, during which time she went on a hunger strike, like many of the other women. By contrast, NJWSA members sought to convert others to the cause of woman suffrage by engaging in a wide range of volunteer activities in support of the war. New Jersey women were also active in the fight against woman suffrage. In 1912, they organized a state chapter of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. The New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NJAOWS) argued that the majority of women did not wish to vote and that women would lose legal protections if granted political equality. In tactics, anti- suffragists were very similar to suffrage supporters, printing and distributing leaflets, sponsoring debates, and delivering lectures. By focusing their efforts on the Anthony Amendment, suffrage supporters finally achieved their goal. In 1919, New Jersey became the twenty-ninth state to ratify 3 the amendment, and later that year, after the Tennessee legislature voted for ratification, New Jersey women finally regained the right to vote. Key Words: Suffrage Suffragist Temperance Ballot Franchise Disfranchise Partial Suffrage Constitutional Amendment Ratification Picket National American Woman Suffrage Association National Woman’s Party Congressional Union Middle School Procedures The teacher should begin the lesson by showing the video segment on woman suffrage from the New Jersey Legacy television series, available in the “Woman Suffrage” section of the New Jersey History Partnership Project website, http://nj-history.org. After viewing the video, the teacher should ask students: • What was the significance of the 1915 New Jersey referendum on woman suffrage? • What was Woodrow Wilson’s position (as governor of New Jersey and later as president of the United States) on woman suffrage? • Who was Alice Paul? • How do you think her experiences in England shaped her attitudes toward woman suffrage? • Why did Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party adopt the tactic of picketing the White House in 1917? Do you think this tactic was effective? The teacher should explain that because of the militant tactics she promoted as leader of the NWP, Alice Paul was a controversial figure, even among suffrage supporters. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the NAWSA, publicly chastised Paul and the NWP when the pickets continued even after the United States declared war on Germany. The teacher should then hand out an article on Alice Paul by Anne Herendeen. http://nj-history.org/proRef/womanSuff/pdf/womanSuffDoc1.pdf The teacher should read through the document with the students, highlighting relevant passages and explaining any difficult words. Afterwards, the teacher should lead a discussion on the following questions: • What is the tone of this article—admiring, disapproving, neutral? • What was Mrs. L.’s attitude toward Alice Paul? 4 • Why did Mrs. L. disapprove of Paul’s tactics? • How did Mrs. L. think suffrage would be achieved? • How does Helen Paul explain local disapproval of her sister’s protest activities? • What does this article tell us about Alice Paul? • Are there any questions you would have liked to ask Mrs. L., Alice Paul’s mother, or Alice herself? For homework, students should write an imaginary interview between Alice Paul and Anne Herendeen. Alternately, they might imagine a conversation between Alice and Mrs. L. The interview or dialogue should focus on the topic of Paul’s beliefs, experiences, and tactics. On the following day, the teacher should invite students to share their interviews and dialogues with the class before handing them in. High School Procedures For homework the night before this lesson, students should read the section of their textbook on the woman suffrage movement and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The teacher should begin the class with a short lecture (based on Delight Dodyk’s online lecture, available in the “Woman Suffrage” section of the New Jersey History Partnership Project website, http://nj-history.org) on the suffragists’ campaign to amend the
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