Women and the Suffrage Movement

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• Which states granted full suffrage to women in the 19th century?
• What was the Seneca Falls conference in 1848?
• When did women get the right to vote? What amendment to the Constitution grants them this right?
• The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" asserted that "Woman is man's equal." In what ways would that change the status women held at that time?
• Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
• Why do we remember Susan B. Anthony today?
• When did the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY occur?
• In the early 1800s, what issues did female reformers focused on?
• How did the consumer economy of the 1920s affect the lives of women?
• How did World War l impact the lives of women in the United States following World War I?
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• What area of the United States gave the most support for women's suffrage before amendment?
• What was the first war where American women could serve? When was this war?
• What region of the nation seemed most willing to grant woman suffrage without a national amendment?
• Who was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union that "grew" the organization in its early days?
• Where did women's suffrage increase?
• Who was Betty Freidan?