Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities

Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities — page 9
minds people said were far too weak to develop great thoughts or hold much knowledge After all didn't the Bible say that women were the weaker sex From then on America's women fought a revolu tion of their own as they challenged the roles that men had written for them Their battles were many Winning the right to vote was one struggle It took 144 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence until American women achieved suf frage the right to go to the polls on Election Day and cast their ballots Early suffragists were women who desperately wanted an education and the opportunity to expand their minds But first they had to overcome their fathers objections to schooling girls This story about women's suffrage opens with two of them Lucy Stone and Elizabeth Cady Stanton A third Susan B Anthony got the education she wanted but then she was forbidden to speak out in public against the evils of slavery Suffrage The word suffrage might be new to you It means the act of voting in an election ranchise is another word for vote A person who is allowed to vote is said to be enfranchised The terms woman suffrage or women's suf frage that you read here refer to the unique topic of