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Monday, December 29, 2014

Fighting for Rights by Ann M. Rossi

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Book: Fighting for Rights
Author: Ann M. Rossi
ISBN: 978-0-02-202941-8

Introduction

1. They could work in factories or teach.
2. They couldn’t be lawyers or doctors.
3. no
4. No, women earned less.
5. The husband got to keep all her property.
6. No, she didn’t have control and her husband decided if she gets spending money.
7. The husband stayed with the children if they divorced.
8. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Chapter 1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. 1815
10. He studied law.
11. politics
12. He let her read his law books.
13. 10
14. no
15. The name of her cousin was Gerrit Smith.
16. Henry Stanton
17. The word “obey” was included in most wedding vows.
18. They were to take care of their homes, children, and obey their husbands.
19. London
20. She met Lucretia Mott
21. The seed was that women needed to fight for the right to vote.
22. Lucretia Mott was a Quaker minister and a well-known abolitionist.  She started the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society.
23. 1840
24. 1848
25. 8 years
26. Answers will vary
27. Compare and contrast yourself to Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Answers will vary
28. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiments.
29. 5, Elizabeth, Mott, and 3 others.
30. It listed ideas about women’s rights.
31. The right for women to vote.
32. Imagine if once you reached 18years old, you couldn’t vote.  Compare and contrast how your life would change and stay the same.
33. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
34. It was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
35. The newspapers were against the goals of the convention.

Chapter 2: Susan B. Anthony

36. “The Quakers believed that all people should be useful to the world.  They also believed that men and women were equals.”
37. Yes it was, we had slavery back then, and women didn’t have rights.
38. 1820
39. Susan learned to read by the age of 4.
40. He decided to start his own school.
41. She went to Pennsylvania for boarding school.
42. He owned a small cotton mill.
43. She became a teacher.
44. She taught at the Canajoharie Academy in New York.
45. She joined a temperance group.
46. It is a group that tried to control or stop the use of alcohol.
47. What was the Underground Railroad?
48. The slaves that escaped through the Underground Railroad went to the country of Canada.  Why did they go to this country?  They went to Canada because slavery wasn’t allowed.
49. Frederick Douglass
50. 1851
51. They met at an antislavery convention.
52. Give one fact for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here:___________________________________________________________________________________
53. Give one opinion for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here: _________________________________________________________________________________________
54. She went to a temperance convention and was not allowed to speak.

Chapter 3: Working Together
55. Compare and contrast the two women, Susan and Elizabeth, on page 15.
56. The 1854 petition was for the rights of married women to own property in New York.
57. The Civil War
58. In 1863, Elizabeth and Susan helped form a group called the Women’s National Loyal League.  This group collected signatures of people who supported an end to slavery.
59. They helped convince lawmakers to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
60. The amendment freed all enslaved people.
61. The issue was to have African American men have the right to vote before women.
62. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
63. They wanted a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote.
64. Men couldn’t join
65. They were supporting for African American men to get the vote first then women.
66. Answers will vary
67. 1890
68. 21 years (1890-1869= 21)
69. They merged in 1890.
70. The National American Women Suffrage Association
71. The 19th Amendment
72. 3 quarters
73. It was passed in 1919
74. 1902
75. 1906
76. 17 years after (1919-1902=17)
77. 13 years after (1919-1906=13)
78. Carrie Chapman Catt started the league of Women Voters.
79. In 1920
80. It was her belief that informed citizens make wiser decisions
81. This organization was designed to help  women become educated about political issues.
82. It encouraged them to become active in local politics.

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