Fill In Sentences:
Suffragists
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
integration
suffrage
unanimously
discrimination
witty
condemned
tactics
ratified
endorsed
repeal
abolitionist
controversial
resolutions
Amendment
convention
1. Frederick Douglass was a former slave and an .
2. Several senators voted against the bill, so it did not pass .
3. Twelve for women’s rights were voted on at the meeting.
4. After repeated requests by suffragists, the president finally the passage of an amendment for women’s suffrage.
5. The Equal Rights Amendment was not added to the Constitution because too few states had it.
6. Many people did not like the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, so they worked for its .
7. The 18th to the Constitution granted women their right to vote.
8. African-American suffragists faced when they were asked to march at the end of a suffrage parade in 1913.
9. Some white suffragists feared that the of African Americans into the organizations would lose support for the suffrage movement.
10. The right to vote for women was a issue even at the meeting in Seneca Falls.
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the organizers of the women’s rights held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
12. Wyoming granted women , or the right to vote, in 1869.
13. The used by the suffragists to demand the vote varied from pleas for support to picketing.
14. The speaker used humor to present her views of suffrage.
15. Anti-suffrage organizations sometimes suffragists for not giving enough attention to the home.
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Definition Matching:
Suffragists
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
ratify
1. someone who worked to end slavery in the United States
integration
2. with all the votes supporting one side; with everyone agreeing to the same thing
witty
3. statement of opinion that is expressed in a formal way, often in writing
condemn
4. to support; to approve
resolution
5. to confirm; to approve
controversial
6. the act of doing away with something or getting rid of it
suffrage
7. change made to a law or set of laws, such as the Constitution
discrimination
8. difference in the treatment given to a particular person or group
tactics
9. the act of including individuals from different groups in an organization
repeal
10. causing disagreement; having strongly held differences in opinion
amendment
11. a meeting organized for a particular purpose
endorse
12. the right to vote
abolitionist
13. methods; way of accomplishing a goal
convention
14. cleverly amusing
unanimously
15. to express strong disapproval of; to declare unfit or wrong
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Crossword:
Suffragists
Words
INTEGRATION
RATIFY
WITTY
SUFFRAGE
TACTICS
ABOLITIONIST
DISCRIMINATION
REPEAL
CONVENTION
AMENDMENT
CONDEMN
UNANIMOUSLY
ENDORSE
RESOLUTION
CONTROVERSIAL
1
7
9
13
3
6
8
14
12
2
15
10
5
11
4
Across
2. causing disagreement; having strongly held differences in opinion
4. the act of including individuals from different groups in an organization
5. with all the votes supporting one side; with everyone agreeing to the same thing
6. a meeting organized for a particular purpose
10. to express strong disapproval of; to declare unfit or wrong
13. the act of doing away with something or getting rid of it
14. to confirm; to approve
Down
1. difference in the treatment given to a particular person or group
3. someone who worked to end slavery in the United States
7. statement of opinion that is expressed in a formal way, often in writing
8. change made to a law or set of laws, such as the Constitution
9. the right to vote
11. to support; to approve
12. methods; way of accomplishing a goal
15. cleverly amusing
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It’s hard to believe that just 100 years ago, women couldn’t vote, and nowadays most women don’t even think twice about it. However, without the hard work and dedication of several generations of suffragists, this right would not exist.
Learning about women’s rights, for kids, is made timely and compelling in this issue, which starts off with a look at women’s status after the Revolutionary War; among other things, they could not own property, vote, sit on juries, or keep their children if they divorced. Over the next 150 years, leading suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony kept the topic of women’s lack of rights on politicians’ desks and in the public eye with marches, protests, and well-organized campaigns.
A helpful timeline charts their struggles, which ultimately led to the passage in 1920 of the 19th Amendment. Guiding lights of the movement are introduced, such as notable African Americans like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, whose inclusion here points out to kids learning about women’s rights how much abolitionists and suffragists helped each other in their efforts. Although women now have the right to vote, learning about women’s rights, for kids, must also include an honest look at the work that still needs to be done, and this issue concludes by pointing out the disparities that still exist in the workplace and the lack of equal opportunity, both in the U.S. and around the world.
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Before the Right to Vote
When this country began more than 200 years ago, almost everyone accepted the idea that a ...
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Getting Organized
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Highlights of the Suffrage Movement
It was 72 years from the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 to the passage of the 19th Amendm ...
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Susan B. Anthony and Other Leaders
A movement that lasted over 70 years needed strong leaders to keep it going.
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The Fight Continues into the Twentieth Century
As the years wore on, suffragists became bolder about spreading their message.
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Victory!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902 and Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, but a new generatio ...
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More Work to Be Done
Winning the right to vote was a huge step forward for American women’s rights, but i ...
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Highlights of the Suffrage Movement
When wealthy property-owner Margaret Brent asks for the right to vote in Maryland, in ...
Vocabulary Activities for Suffragists
