Construct an essay describing the suffrage movement during the early 20th century and the efforts that finally led to the final victory of allowing women to cast a ballot.

Week Two Discussion

Choose ONE of the following questions below and write a minimum 250-300-word essay, using at least three citations from our classroom readings, lectures and web sites and other reliable outside sources that you find relating to the subject.

Be sure to cite your sources of information; you can do this by using parentheses (rather than footnotes), citing an abbreviation for the source and then the page number.

QUESTION

5. The early decades of the 20th century saw the final push to pass an amendment giving women the right to vote. That dream finally became a reality–after 75 years of campaign and agitating!–in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. This weeks readings, online exhibits and lectures offer much background on the woman suffrage movement.

Using theses sources, construct an essay describing the suffrage movement during the early 20th century and the efforts that finally led to the final victory of allowing women to cast a ballot. And–the most important consideration–why did it take so long for women to achieve this goal?