Women’s+Suffrage

1) Timeline 1821 Emma Hart Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York--the first endowed school for girls. 1837 Eighty-one delegates from 12 states attend the first National Female Anti-Slavery Society convention in New York City. 1839 Mississippi passes the first Married Woman's Property Act. 1849 Harriet Tubman leads many slaves to freedom the next ten years by the Underground Railroad. 1851 Former slave Sojourner Truth delivers a speech in Arkon, Ohio at the women's rights convention. 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a bestselling book called Unlce Tom's Cabin 1878 A Woman Suffrage Amendment is introduced in the United States Congress. 1891 After the murder of three black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee, Ida B. Wells states a anti-lynching campaign 1961 Jeannette Rankin is the first women elected to the House of Representatives 1923 The National Woman's Party proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination of gender. By: Jack Walsh __Bibliography__ []

2) By: Connor Carfi Bibliography []

3) August 26, 1920 is among one of the most important dates in American History. On this day the 19th Amendment granted the right to vote by ballot to American women. Many women had worked on the suffrage movement diliginty to insure that their daughters and grandaughters would have the opportunity to cast a vote on who they believed should govern our nation. It took many years but now there are women on the Supreme Court, Congress, Senate, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State and involved in many levels of local government. By: Sean McCloskey Bibliography http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/history.htm