The cartoonist opposes woman suffrage. He depicts the opposition to suffrage in Nebraska as being fueled by liquor interests. The man's cuff says "Liquor Interests" indicating he represents the liquor industry. The cartoon suggests the liquor industry opposed suffrage because they believed women voters would support prohibition or restrictions on alcohol sales. By depicting the man as impatiently asking "What, dinner not ready yet?" the cartoon mocks the view that women's proper place is in the home, not participating in politics like voting. So through humor and symbolism, the cartoonist expresses support for women's suffrage and criticism of the liquor industry's role in opposing it in Nebraska.

1. Women’s Suffrage
By Jackie White

2. Women’s Suffrage
• Main Idea: As a result of social
and economic change, many
women entered public life as
workers and reformers.
• Why It Matters Now:
Women won new
opportunities in labor,
education, and voting that are
enjoyed today.

3. Objective
• Identify the leaders of
the woman suffrage
movement and be able
to give three examples
of strategies they used
to earn passage of the
Nineteenth
Amendment.

4. Key People Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony: leading proponent of
woman suffrage who founded NWSA in
1869 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton (became
NAWSA in 1890)
Carrie Chapman Catt: became Anthony’s
successor in 1900 (1900-1904; 1915) Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul and Lucy
Burns: founders of the
Congressional Union, and its
successor the National
Woman’s Party who
pressured the federal
government to pass a
suffrage amendment

5. Key Terms
• Reform: the process of making changes to a
social, economic or political institution or
practice in order to improve it.
• Progressivism (progressive movement):
movement favoring changes or reform through
governmental actions
• Suffrage: the right to vote
• NACW: National Association of Colored
Women
• NAWSA: National American Women
Suffrage Association
• NWP: National Woman’s Party
• Nineteenth Amendment: granted women the
right to vote

6. Bellwork:
Have you ever taken a stand for something you truly believed in but
that was not so popular? If so, what was the issue, your actions, and
the results?

7. Iron Jawed Angels
• Selected scenes
• Constitutional
amendment
• No votes for women
• White house picketing
• Why vote
• Woman arrested
• Women march
• Women recruiting

8. List the reasons in your
own words, why the
authors of the leaflet
believe women should be
able to vote?

10. In your own words why
do the people who made
this flier not approve of
woman suffrage?

11. What, Dinner Not Ready Yet! What Have You Been Doing?
A Picture of the future by our much married artist

12. What does it say on the
man’s cuff?
What might this man be
against?
According to this cartoon,
what organization is fueling
opposition to suffrage in
Nebraska?
Why would liquor interest by
opposed to woman suffrage?
Backbone
Does the cartoonist support or Who & What were back
oppose woman suffrage? of the opposition in
Explain. Nebraska?