RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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they wrote letters to President Lincoln asking for his support
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they protested, went on hunger strikes, gave speeches and chained themselves to gates
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they made signs and banners and hung them in different places
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they screamed and yelled and threw fits until they got their way
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Detailed explanation-1: -But for almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting for women’s suffrage: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists.
Detailed explanation-3: -The women’s suffrage movement made the question of women’s voting rights into an important political issue in the 19th century. The struggle was particularly intense in Great Britain and in the United States, but those countries were not the first to grant women the right to vote, at least not on a national basis.