19th amendment: Women's Right to Vote

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Across
  1. 2. Not all suffrage opponents were ___.
  2. 4. The US House of ________ passed the amendment on May 21, 1919
  3. 8. tried to pass national suffrage in 1918 but fell short.
  4. 9. The suffragists' ______ strikes forced Wilson to act.
  5. 11. The _____ first explicitly named women's suffrage as a human right in 1979.
  6. 13. The women’s suffrage movement sprung from the _____ movement.
  7. 14. which state didn't ratify the 19th Amendment until March 22, 1984?
  8. 17. how many suffragettes died for the cause.
  9. 18. Women tried casting votes before it was _____
  10. 23. Multiple citizens have been cited as the first to vote under the ___ amendment
  11. 24. what was the name of Teddy Roosevelt's party campaign on women's enfranchisement?
  12. 25. The 19th Amendment was first proposed as?
  13. 26. The _____ Court did not agree with this argument, so supporters of women’s suffrage changed their strategy.
  14. 27. In 1922, some said the amendment was ________________
  15. 29. women weren't allowed to
  16. 31. Even though the 19th Amendment granted voting rights to women nationwide, states still had leverage to ________.
Down
  1. 1. Before 1920, voting rights ______ across state lines.
  2. 3. The fights for racial and gender ______ have a shared but contentious past.
  3. 5. how many days after the 19th Amendment was ratified, 10 million women joined the electorate.
  4. 6. By 1918, how many states granted women the right to vote?
  5. 7. The right to vote wasn’t the top ______ of the women’s equality movement when it started.
  6. 10. how many women across the U.S. voted when they first got voting rights?
  7. 11. what kind of women were allowed to vote in New Jersey from 1797 to 1807
  8. 12. The women’s suffrage movement ____ some momentum during and after the Civil War when the country was preoccupied with other issues.
  9. 15. Suffrage ________ threw a White House picket protest.
  10. 16. Women argued that the ________ Amendment, which said all citizens had equal rights under the law, meant that women could vote.
  11. 19. how many states had to ratify the amendment for it to become law?
  12. 20. what was the first U.S. state to give women the right to vote.
  13. 21. Rumors circulated that a woman might appear on the ________ ticket in 1920
  14. 22. what month did the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote
  15. 28. A statue celebrating _____ role in the 19th Amendment's passage was unveiled in 2016.
  16. 30. FDR became the first president whose mother was ________ to vote