Important People
This suffragist helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This word means a person who works to bring about change.
What is activist?
Who were "suffragists"?
women who organized and fought for the right to vote
This suffragist worked with Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
This word means to create or set up something, like an organization.
What is establish?
The 19th Amendment
This activist helped lead the fight for women’s suffrage and worked with Stanton.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This word relates to the national government of a country.
What is federal?
Why did the suffragists go on hunger strikes and do other things to get public attention?
to get more people to support women's right to vote
This leader founded the National Women’s Party and used bold protests for voting rights.
Who is Alice Paul?
This word means a group of people working together for a cause.
What is movement?
What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an organization formed by different women's suffrage factions. They fought for states to give women the right to vote, while also pushing for a constitutional amendment to guarantee women suffrage.
These two African American activists reminded suffragists not to ignore Black women.
Who are Mary Church Terrell and Coralie Franklin Cook?
This vocabulary word describes the group of people fighting for women’s voting rights.
What is movement?
How did Alice Paul support the women's suffrage movement? Use information from the text to support your answer.
Alice Paul supported the suffrage movement by founding the “National Women’s Party”. She and her party got people to pay attention to the suffrage movement, and to support women's suffrage. They did things to get public attention and support for their cause, including marching and passing out flyers. Paul also went on a hunger strike, which got more public attention and support.