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Rightfully Ours : How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities.
Title:
Rightfully Ours : How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities.
Author:
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan.
ISBN:
9781883052904
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Series:
For Kids series
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Time Line for Women's Suffrage -- Preface -- 1 Lucy Stone -- Craft Your Own Soap -- 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Play a Game of Blindman's Bluff -- Disconnect and Reconnect -- Time for Tea and Talk -- Make a Memory -- 3 Susan B. Anthony -- Make an Oil Lamp -- Practice Your Posture -- 4 Finding a Platform -- Find Polaris, the North Star -- 5 Sidetracked by War -- 6 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Picture Yourself as a Victorian -- Stage a Readers' Theater for Suffrage -- Bake a Cake with Suffrage Frosting -- 7 Prisoners in a Gilded Age -- How Comfortable Is a Corset? -- Paint Your Plate! -- Design a Suffragist Postcard -- Jump in Time to a Suffrage Rhyme -- 8 Rolling into a New Century -- Make Water-Lily Eggs -- Sing a Song of Suffragists -- 9 Parades, Pickets, and Prison -- Dress Up for Suffrage -- Make a Coat-Hanger Banner -- 10 Over the Top -- Make a Five-Pointed Star with Just One Cut -- You Be the Judge -- Resources -- Index.
Abstract:
Though the Declaration of Independence stated that “all men are created equal," married women and girls in the early days of the United States had few rights. For better or worse, their lives were controlled by their husbands and fathers. Married women could not own property, and few girls were educated beyond reading and simple math. Women could not work as doctors, lawyers, or in the ministry. Not one woman could vote, but that would change with the tireless efforts of Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jeannette Rankin, Alice Paul, and thousands of women across the nation.             Rightfully Ours tells of the century-long struggle for woman suffrage in the United States, a movement that began alongside the abolitionist cause and continued through the ratification of the 19th amendment. In addition to its lively narrative, this history includes a time line, online resources, and hands-on activities that will give readers a sense of everyday lives of the suffragists. Children will create a banner for suffrage, host a Victorian tea, feel what it was like to wear a corset, and more. And through it all, readers will gain a richer appreciation for women who secured the right to fully participate in American democracy—and why they must never take that right for granted.   Kerrie Logan Hollihan is the author of Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids, Theodore Roosevelt for Kids, and Elizabeth I, The People's Queen. She lives in Blue Ash, Ohio.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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