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If you lived when women won their rights, by Anne Kamma ; illustrated by Pamela Johnson

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750L, Lexile

non fiction

If you lived when women won their rights

by Anne Kamma ; illustrated by Pamela Johnson

Accelerated Reader, LG, 5.0, 1, 122379

Includes short biographies of Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt

What rights did the first women who settled in America have? -- Did women help win the American Revolution? -- Why did Abigail Adams write to her husband? -- Did laws about women change after the American Revolution? -- Which laws upset women the most? -- How were the laws unfair to married women? -- What did girls wear? -- Why did women complain about their clothes? -- Did girls go to school? -- Why weren't women allowed to go to college? -- Who was Lucy Stone? -- How did women earn money? -- What was American like in the 1800s? -- Why did people want o make alcohol illegal? -- Did women join the antislavery movement? -- Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? -- What started the women's rights movement? -- What did the women do? -- Who was Lucretia Mott? -- Did anybody show up? -- What happened at the Seneca Falls convention? -- Was there trouble at the convention? -- What did the newspaper say? -- Were the people from the convention upset? -- Was the convention a failure? -- Who was the leader of the new movement? -- Who was Susan B. Anthony? -- What happened when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony became a team? -- Did any men support women's rights? -- Did the marriage laws change? -- Why did it take so long to change the laws? -- What happened when women first wore pants? -- What was different about the West? -- How did pioneers in the West find out about the women's movement? -- How did women get the vote in Wyoming? -- Was there trouble when the women voted? -- What did women do during the Civil War? -- Who was Sojourner Truth? -- Why were women's rights leaders upset after the war? -- How did women speakers help change America? -- How did suffragists in England help? -- Who was Alice Paul? -- Who was Carrie Chapman Catt? -- Why did Alice Paul organize a march in Washington, D.C.? -- What did Alice Paul do next? -- What was the "night of terror"? -- When did women get the right to vote?

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