Violet's Great Escape
Violet lives with her parents in this Pennsylvania town.
What is Susquehanna?
Myrtle helps Violet when she is wandering around this busy city.
What is New York City?
This is the main goal of the suffragists.
What is the right to vote?
A "Hope Chest" is usually filled with items for this future event.
What is a wedding/marriage?
Violet's decision to leave home shows the theme of seeking this.
What is independence/freedom?)
This is the name of Violet's older sister who ran away to be a suffragist.
Who is Chloe?
Unlike Violet, Myrtle has to worry about these laws that enforce segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Suffragists often wore this color to represent their cause.
This term refers to the unfair treatment of people based on their race.
What is racism/ discrimination/ segregation?
Myrtle and Violet becoming friends despite their different backgrounds shows this theme.
What is friendship/equality?
Violet finds these hidden in the attic, which helps her realize why her sister left.
What are Chloe's letters?
Myrtle’s father does this for work.
What is dig the Panama Canal?
People who were against women's right to vote were called this.
What are Antis/Anti-suffragists?
This was the primary way people sent long-distance messages before phones.
What is a telegram?
The main conflict of the book involves the struggle for this fundamental right.
What is Justice/Equality?
Violet’s parents want to send her to this type of school to learn "ladylike" manners.
What is a finishing school/boarding school?
This is the specific city where Myrtle and Violet first cross paths.
What is New York City?
Chloe is working as an organizer for this specific group.
What is the National Woman's Party?
A "Settlement House" was a place that helped these people in the city.
Who are immigrants?
Violet realizes her parents were keeping secrets, which teaches her about the importance of this.
What is truth/honesty?
Violet uses this much money from her "Hope Chest" savings to buy her train ticket.
What is $13?
When Violet is lost and overwhelmed in the train station, Myrtle helps her by acting as a ______ guide.
What is a city/travel?
This state is where the final, biggest "battle" for the vote takes place.
What is Tennessee?
A person who works to change society for the better is called an ______.
What is an activist/reformer?
The suffragists show that even if things are difficult, you must have this to succeed.
What is perseverance?)