A | B |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Advocate | to support a person or idea |
Activist | A person who publicly advocates for the rights of others. |
Suffragist | Men and women who supported extending voting rights to women. |
Demonstrations | Peaceful gatherings to support women’s suffrage. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Held the first women's conference in Seneca Falls, NY |
Frances Willard | President of the Womens Christian temperance union |
Susan B. Anthony | Wrote the 19th amendment, but did not live to see it passed |
Carrie Chapman Catt | President of the National Women's Suffrage Association |
Lucy Burns | Co-Founder of the National Woman's Party |
Alice Paul | Organized suffrage parades and demonstrations. She was jailed many times. |
Ida B. Wells | A Black journalist who wrote about women's suffrage |
Declaration of Sentiments | A document that was read at the seneca falls convention |
Stanton and Anthony | Founders of the NWSA |
19th amendment | Gave women the right to vote in 1919 |
flapper | a name for a woman who did not dress in the traditional fashion |
Woodrow Wilson | President of the US during the women's suffrage movement |