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In 1848, a group of people met in Seneca Falls,
NY to talk about the ____________ women
faced because they didn't have the same rights
as men.
At that time, women could
not own property, they
could not vote and very few
could go to __________.
This meeting was the first
women's rights convention
in the United States. At that
meeting, men and women signed a document
called, "Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions." By signing, these people agreed
to the _________ of what was becoming the
woman's movement.
For more than 70 years, women and men
_____________, wrote letters and articles,
protested and picketed to get an Amendment
to the Constitution which would give women
the right to _________. These people were
known as suffragists.
How long do you think women in the United States
have had the right to vote? 300 years? 200 years?
150 years?
In the United States, women have had that
___________ for only 103 years of the 247 years
we have been a country. And getting the right to
vote took ___________ of protesting and writing to
lawmakers—who were all men at the time.
On May 21, 1919, the U.S. House of
Representatives finally ____________ the
19th Amendment, also known as the Susan
B. Anthony Amendment, guaranteeing
women the right to vote. But that was just the
first ________. The U.S. Senate and at least
three quarters of the states had to approve it
before it would become the law of the land.
The United States Senate approved the
amendment a week after the House.
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the
________ state needed to ratify the 19th
Amendment.
One week later, on August 26, the 19th
Amendment officially became part of the
U.S. Constitution, forever ______________
American women's right to vote.
Today, more than 68
million women vote in
elections because of the
courageous suffragists
who never gave up the
fight for equality.
Replace the
missing words on
this page:
Meeting for Women's Rights
Victory!
G R E A T M O M E N T S I N W O M E N ' S H I S T O R Y
Can you imagine a world in which
women do not have the right to vote?
