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Do you think women treat the right to vote flippantly?

What would the framers of the Constitution say about women suffrage?

Why did the suffragettes not gain suffrage before World War I?

Can you name two times that suffrage has been expanded since the creation of the Constitution?


Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment


 

Ratifying the Constitution Signing the Constitution Delegates to the Constitutional Convention The Work Begins Writing the Constitution The Great Compromise Bill of Rights Powers of the Federal Government The Three Branches of Government Checks and Balances Amendments Women - The Right to Vote

 
Women - The Right to Vote

Women's Right to Vote (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series)
by Elaine Landau

With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
by Ann Bausum

A Long Way to Go: A Story of Women's Right to Vote (Once Upon America)
by Zibby Oneal

Created Equal: Women Campaign for the Right to Vote 1840 - 1920 (Crossroads America)
by Ann Rossi

One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women's Suffrage Movement
by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850--1920 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Professor Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
by Tanya Lee Stone and Rebecca Gibbon

You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
by Jean Fritz

Amendment XIX Granting Women the Right to Vote (Constitutional Amendments Beyond the Bill of Rights)
by Carrie Fredericks

The Day the Women Got the Vote: A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement
by George Sullivan

The Fight for Women's Right to Vote in American History (In American History)
by Carol Rust Nash

No Distinction of Sex in the Right to Vote, (Gerritsen women's history)
by John Davis Long

Women's Right to Vote (Graphic Library)
by Terry Collins and Brian Bascle

The Nineteenth Amendment: Women's Right to Vote (Constitution (Springfield, Union County, N.J.).)
by Judy Monroe

A Look at the Nineteenth Amendment: Women Win the Right to Vote (The Constitution of the United States)
by Helen Koutras Bozonelis

Free But Not Equal;: How Women Won the Right to Vote
by Bill Severn

Petticoat Politics; How American Women Won the Right to Vote
by Doris Faber

When Esther Morris Headed West: Women, Wyoming, and the Right to Vote
by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge and Jacqueline Rogers

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Projects You Can Do

Describe the events of the suffrage movement by publishing a class newspaper.

Compare and contrast life for women in the era of the suffragettes and now.

Use the Internet and other sources to find out when women got the right to vote in each state and why the western states gave suffrage before the eastern states did.

Make a map of the United States showing the dates when suffrage was granted.

 

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