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Description of the woman's Suffrage: http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/

Suffrage Vocabulary:

Suffrage: (1) The right to vote. (2) The act of voting

Abolish: To put an end to.

19th Amendment: Woman’s Suffrage (1920). This amendment extended the right to vote to all qualified women in federal and state election

Citizenship: Having the duties, rights, and privileges of being a citizen of a country

Petition: (1) An appeal, especially to a person or group in authority. (2) A written document formally requesting a right or benefit from an authority or government.

Feminist Vocabulary:

Feminist:  A supporter for equal rights for women.

Social Movement:  A group of people with common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.

Equality:  the quality of being the same in quantity or value.

 activism: a policy of action to achieve a political or social goal.

separatism:  advocates dividing the human species along lines of particular shared traits.

Feminist vocabulary Link: https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/40460#view=notes 

Woman's Suffrage Vocabulary Link:  http://www.eastconn.org/tah/SuffrageVocabandBackgroundInfo%20heets.pdf