Product Description: When the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution authorized womens suffrage in 1920, it was the culmination of decades of work by women who had fought to be considered equal to men under the law. Accompanied by primary source documents, this resource chronicles the birth of the womens rights movement at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; the suffragists sometimes-contentious partnership with the abolitionist movement; and the slow build toward national suffrage...read more

Product Description: Who was Susan B. Anthony—what did she stand for, why was she arrested, and how did she fight for women's right to vote? And did she ever see her dream of woman's suffrage come true? From the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, to the enactment of the 19th Amendment, this lively chronicle introduces Anthony and the American suffragist movement...read more

Product Description: The women's suffrage movement was the fight for the right of women to vote. Highlighting the lives and careers of notable suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul, author Carol Rust Nash traces the movement’s roots from the temperance and abolition movements through its success with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment...read more

Today, it is almost impossible to imagine a time when women were not allowed to vote in the United States. But while women are today an important force in the nations government, they were not guaranteed the right to vote until 1920, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Readers will find out why women were barred from voting in the countrys early history, how they fought tirelessly against oppression for decades, and how they eventually achieved victory.

Product Description: While women were part of American history from the outset, they did not win the right to vote until 1920. Readers of this engrossing history of the womens suffrage movement will discover its roots in the abolitionist movement. Theyll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, all men and women are created equal...read more

Product Description: Learn about activists like Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who fought for women's right to vote.

Product Description: This title examines an important historic event the womens suffrage movement. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of womens rights and the League of Women Voters, the roles the antislavery movement, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and literature played in the movement, well-known figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucy Stone, Susan B...read more

Product Description: In the 19th century, the duality of the role of women in society became increasingly obvious. Women became more active in the public sphere, while the "cult of true womanhood" tried to restore her to her traditional domestic sphere...read more

Product Description: This intriguing series takes a look at major events throughout U.S history through the eyes of those who lived to witness them

Concise, easy-to-read introductions to various topics in U.S. history use primary documents and photography, as well as timelines, maps, and other tools, to teach important facts about our past.