Communication and Transportation in the late 1800s and Early 1900s
Methods used to gain the right to vote
Vocabulary
Important people
Events of the 1800s and 1900s
100
The United States was connected from east to west by this, which had been built largely by Irish-Americans, Chinese Americans and African Americans.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
In 1848, this was one of the first conventions held to discuss and draft a Declaration of the Civic and Political Rights of Women.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
She was an early leader for women's suffrage and equality illegally voted in 1872. She was arrested and fined, and never paid her fine.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
100
This was slowed down the women's suffrage movement in the mid 1800s, and many suffragettes were very mad when black men gained the right to vote with the 14th amendment but women did not.
What was the American Civil War?
200
This was the first form of text messaging that could almost instantly share information across the country (where wires had been built to connect it).
What is the telegraph?
200
These were held marching down city streets (with permits). In Washington, D.C. the women in them were attacked and assaulted.
What are parades?
200
The women who protested and fought for the right to vote.
Who were suffragettes?
200
This American president that finally endorsed the 19th amendment did so with the reason that if women were expected to be full citizens and support a war, they should also be able to participate as full citizens and exercise their right to vote.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
200
This was was fought from 1914-1918 (the United States didn't enter until 1917), and this also delayed women's suffrage in some ways, while making it obvious that women were necessary for success with the war effort.
What was The Great War aka World War I?
300
In the film "Iron Jawed Angels" the women working for suffrage used this new communication method from their Washington D.C. headquarters. 
What is a telephone?
300
Women (and some men) signed and sent these to Congress and local governments to gain voting rights.
What are petitions?
300
Another way of saying the right to vote.
What is enfranchisement?
300
She worked with NAWSA (eventually becoming the president of it). She succeeded Elizabeth Cady Stanton who had been its president before her.
Who was Carrie Chapman Catt?
300
This was the first country to fully enfranchise women.
What is New Zealand?
400
This was how most people got their daily news in the beginning of the 20th century.
What were newspapers?
400
The Silent Sentinels did this outside of the White House for more than two and half years until the 19th Amendment was passed. They were arrested and jailed for doing so.
What is picketing?
400
The term that means the movement and belief that women should have equal rights as men.
What is feminism?
400
She established the National Women's Patrol in 1916 and also organized the Silent Sentinels.
Who was Alice Paul?
400
In the early elections when women were allowed to vote, it was often just for these types of elections.
What are school and local elections, not presidential ones.
500
This innovation in transportation will also help to gain women independence of movement and the ability to connect with other women's rights activists.
What is the automobile?
500
Alice Paul did this as a form of protest for her illegal imprisonment, and was force fed by her jailers and their physicians.
What was a hunger strike?
500
People who did not want women to gain the right to vote. They also organized their opposition.
Who were anti-suffragists?
500
The first woman to be a vice-president in the United States.
Who was Kamala Harris?
500
The states in this region of the United States granted the right to vote for women far faster than others.
What is the west?