Women’s Rights Movement in the United States-

A Struggle for Suffrage

Lillian Mulligan
Shyamalee Ramaraj
Junior Division
Website
 Process Paper
1. Explain how you chose your topic.

We chose our topic by researching different ideas given on our NHD handout. We received our
handout in class. When Mrs. Caruso took us to the media center, we used our handouts to research the
different topics. Our group debated on the different possible topics. Since we've already learned a
reasonable amount of information about women's rights in the past, we thought women’s rights,
specifically women's suffrage, would be an interesting topic to work on as a group project. The topic was
an interesting, yet also a broad topic, so there was an abundant amount of available information.

2. Explain how you conducted your research.

We conducted our research by mainly using the internet to look up information. We used a
variety of search engines, like Google, to help gain important information from websites. We typed in
keywords related to the project, such as “successes in women's suffrage”, “Seneca Falls” or “19th
amendment” in the search bar. When we found a useful website, one of us would write, or type the
name of the site on a fresh page to avoid plagiarism and come back to the page later and cite it in our
bibliography. We used as much information as we could find in our project from each site. Over time,
we'd got enough information to finish the assignment. We cited our pictures, also. Lillian even went to
the public library to check out books so that more information could be added to our project. This way
of researching helped narrow down the main points necessary to have a good project and keep track of
it, too.

3. Explain how you selected your presentation category and created your project.

We selected our presentation category by looking at the available options. We decided that an
exhibit would not work because we’ve done them for a long time. Since we wanted to expand our
research a little, we decided to go with a website. A website was also much more inexpensive, fun, and
simple. We also took this as a challenge of trying something new for once, instead of a traditional
backboard. That’s what we thought and it turned out that way, too!
We created our project by doing something anyone would do; adding information and collected
sources. At first, it wasn’t easy. Everything was challenging. Then, we played with the buttons a bit and
finally discovered what they did. We started organizing the pages, selected the right background, and
added pictures so that everything would be in order and won’t be boring. Along the way, we made a few
mistakes, but it gradually turned out to be a lot better.

4. Explain how your project relates to the NHD theme.

Our project relates to the NHD theme because the women’s suffrage movement in the United
States was a successful debate that came to be law. It changed history, and how people later on would
be analyzed in the future, especially in voting. On top of that, the movement was so successful in the US
that similar ideas of the struggle spread to other parts of the world, giving those women freedom, too.

Words: 550