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