Womens Suffrage Webercise

HistoryNet Womens Suffrage Movement

http://www.historynet.com/womens-suffrage-movement
1. Explain what the word Suffrage means
2. Describe two ways the womens suffrage movement in Europe was different than in the
U.S.
3. Compare and contrast the NWSA & the AWSA
4. What were some of the ways that the NAWSA drew attention to the Suffrage cause?
BrainPop - Womens Suffrage
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/womenssuffrage/
5. What amendment gave women the right to vote? What year?
6. Were any women allowed to vote prior to the amendment? If they were, under what
circumstances?
7. What country was the first to give women the right to vote?
DPLA Womens Suffrage: Campaign for the 19th Amendment
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sets/women-s-suffrage-the-campaign-for-the-
nineteenth-amendment/
8. Analyze the two ads on the top row
9. From the second row, list two reasons from the ads that women should vote
10. From the 1912 postcard from a suffragette, what is the intention of the writer?
11. Is the card to a suffragette valentine for or against womens suffrage?
12. From the photo of a suffragette appealing to striking workers in Paterson, New Jersey in
1913 Do you think the striking workers would be for the vote? Why or why not?
Seneca Falls Convention
http://law.jrank.org/pages/10144/Seneca-Falls-Convention.html
13. When was the convention?
14. What reason prompted the organization of the convention?
15. List three resolutions from the Declaration of Sentiments
16. Explain why you think that the convention was or was not successful in starting the
womens suffrage movement
19 Facts About the 19th Amendment
http://mentalfloss.com/article/67422/19-facts-about-19th-amendment
17. How long were women in New Jersey allowed to vote for in 1792? What women were
allowed?
18. When was the 19th Amendment first proposed? How long after that until it was ratified?
19. Who was the first woman to cast a ballot after the ratification of the 19 th Amendment?
NWHM - Opposition to Suffrage
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/naows-opposition
20. Summarize the reasons why opponents of womens suffrage did not want women to vote.
Do you think that these are valid reasons? Why or why not?