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Act out the story of two women, Alice and Lucy, from the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The group is trying to get women the right to vote, but they are moving too slowly! Alice and Lucy resort to their own methods including instigating radical demonstrations. While their efforts cause them trouble, children will learn how women did eventually obtain the right to vote. This script includes roles written at various reading...
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Women in many parts of the United States were not allowed to vote until 1920. Women's Suffrage discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the country, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary,...
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From the Seneca Falls Convention, to the day that the Nineteenth Amendment was passed into law, the journey to women's right to vote is endlessly fascinating. Leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul are featured in this look into the women's suffrage movement. The main text succinctly introduces important events and groups as well as provides historical context outside of the suffrage movement itself. A concluding timeline including dates...
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Every time women vote, they should thank Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton's unyielding efforts to attain the vote for American women finally paid off in 1920, after her death, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Enhanced by primary sources, images, and sidebars, this inspiring biography proves that with enough passion and commitment, change can occur.
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Learn about women's fight for equality in this enthralling book that features highlights on some of the most well-known feminists and suffragists of all time, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. Through plenty of vivid images, engaging facts, sidebars, and easy-to-read text, readers discover the history behind such things as the Women's Rights Convention, the National Women's Suffrage Association, and how suffragists...
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In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the women's suffrage movement. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important period in American history.
An infographic enhances understanding of the women's suffrage movement, and What Do You Think? sidebars encourage deeper inquiry. A timeline highlights key events and dates....
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While women were part of American history from the outset, they did not win the right to vote until 1920. Readers of this engrossing history of the women's suffrage movement will discover its roots in the abolitionist movement. They'll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, "all men and women are created equal." The book also discusses how the fight for women's rights...
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The years immediately following World War I gave rise to several concepts, one of which was women's suffrage, a movement that would catch fire in different countries around the world at different times in history. For America, that movement began in World War I and carried into World War II. This book explores the events of the movement, ideas that led to its formation and execution, how the key players in this era took great strides to accomplish...
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Accelerated Reader
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From the formal beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the United States to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the journey to women's right to vote is endlessly fascinating. Leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul are part of this volume, which covers important curriculum points, including the Seneca Falls Convention and its Declaration of Sentiments. The main text succinctly introduces important events and groups as well...
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In July of 1848, the fight for women's right to vote in the United States began with a bang. In this innovative play, readers will be transported to the birth of this crucial movement, the Seneca Falls convention. The play features a cast of important historical figures, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, Martha Wright, Mary Ann M'Clintock, and Frederick Douglass. Historical photographs illustrate the true story of these early...
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In the mid-nineteenth century, women's rights activists called for the end of social and legal inequality for women. Although women won the right to vote in 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the struggle for equality was not over. Students will read primary sources related to gender discrimination, suffrage, and reproductive rights as they learn about the continued struggle for gender equality. Through these sources, students...
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Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor...
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Accelerated Reader
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Since the beginning of the US, women have fought for gender equality. Many women additionally fought for racial equality. Through current and historical photographs, learn about the women who fought for equality, such as Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, and Adelina Otero-Warren, and learn about major events of the movement, including the Night of Terror and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Then discover the movement's connection to modern issues...
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White American women won the right to vote in the 1920s, but the suffragette movement started decades earlier. Women fought for nearly 100 years to be allowed to participate in politics at the most basic level. Even after the 19th Amendment was ratified, women of color needed to carry on the fight for their own voting rights-a fact that is often overlooked by history books. Through informative sidebars and engaging fact boxes, this volume takes an...
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Women used to have few rights. All the important decisions in their lives were made by men. They could not vote and give their opinion on who should run the country. By the middle of the 19th century, more and more women were starting to ask why not? These are the stories of five trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Elizabeth Cady Stanton began campaigning for women's rights when she was refused entry to a convention...
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An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid-1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928. In the decade prior to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, both militant suffragettes and law-abiding suffragists ensured that the issue came to the forefront of British politics. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of the movement in Wales, which...
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On December 10, 1869, Governor John Campbell of the Wyoming Territory signed the women's suffrage bill into law. For the first time, women had the right to vote, although this was limited to women in the Wyoming Territory. Through accessible yet engaging text enhanced by appealing images and fascinating sidebars, students will learn the struggles and triumphs of the social activists that changed the face of voting. They'll meet the woman behind the...
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Who were the jujitsuffragettes?
In the early twentieth century, women in England demanded the right to vote—and faced violent retaliation. Rather than back down, the suffragist group Women’s Social and Political Union formed its own security unit. Edith Garrud, a pioneering self-defense instructor, trained them to fight back against abuse and arrest while pursuing long-overdue rights.
This graphic retelling of Garrud’s life reveals the resilience...
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The acclaimed historian explores the seventy-year fight for women's suffrage and the struggle for equality that continues today-with a foreword by Nancy Pelosi.
In Victory for the Vote, women's history expert Doris Weatherford presents a detailed history of the women's suffrage movement from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Weatherford then puts the fight for the right to vote into a contemporary...
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In the mid 19th century, a few women living in upstate New York decided it was time for women to stop accepting their status as second class citizens. Women lacked many basic civil rights that men enjoyed, including suffrage the right to vote. These women from New York held a convention in which they demanded their rights. Their battle took more than 70 years to win. Along the way they were opposed and mocked by male and female anti suffragists who...
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