Mar 21, 2017
American Women who Fought
for the Right to Vote (Plus 10 Civics
Questions)
pdf: http://goo.gl/wIwY62
Lydia Chapin Taft was the first woman known to legally vote (1756) in colonial America. During the early 1800s, states passed laws to stop women from voting.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton based the Seneca Falls Declaration on the Declaration of Independence. They wrote: “all men and women are created equal [and] are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” (1848). They worked for women’s rights, especially the right to vote.
Alice Paul led the 1910s campaign for the 19th Amendment (1920) to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in voting.
Fanny Lou Hammer and Ella Baker organized voter registration drives in the American South. Their work led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Also check out:
Citizenship Resources for
Women's History Month
https://goo.gl/t4wjDI
Citizenship Resources in
Honor of Nowruz (Persian New Year)
https://goo.gl/JFsmCR
#NoBanNoWall Interview
Quizzes
https://goo.gl/efwVOG
N-400 pdfs for practice
scripts based on the N-400 Application of
Naturalization.
http://www.uscitizenpod.com/p/n-400-practice_27.html
Citizenship Resources for
Citizenship and ESL resources.
http://www.uscitizenpod.com/p/citizenship-resources.html
Citizenship by Language
for Citizenship Resources organized by
language.
http://www.uscitizenpod.com/p/blog-page_17.html
Citizenship by Country
for Citizenship Resources organized by country of
origin.
http://www.uscitizenpod.com/p/resources.html