TH: Winning the Vote
- Due Feb 11, 2022 at 11:59pm
- Points 100
- Questions 5
- Available after Feb 10, 2022 at 12am
- Time Limit None
- Allowed Attempts 3
Instructions
Standard: SS4H4. Examine the main ideas of the abolitionist and suffrage movements: Discuss contributions of, and challenges faced by Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
Please read the passage then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow to show your understanding of the text:
Winning the Vote
Imagine if boys made all the rules. That's how it was in 1776, when the United States was founded. Women were not allowed to vote until 1920! The year 2020 is the 100th anniversary of that important event.
Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Thousands of women marched in New York City for the right to vote.
The women's suffrage movement began in the 1800s. Suffrage is the right to vote. To win this right, women held protests and marches. Hundreds of those women were arrested and jailed.
Women's groups across the country are honoring those who fought for this right with special events throughout the year. "Learning how women's actions changed America is important. It encourages us to understand that we can make a better world," said Molly Murphy MacGregor, the president of the National Women's History Project.