Women Campaigns

Question 1

Based on your reading in the webtext, respond to the following prompt in one to two paragraphs:

Choose a sentence or short section from the article embedded in your webtext reading about the women’s suffrage movement. Copy and paste the sentence or section into your discussion board post. Along with this sentence or section, briefly explain how your choice illustrates the concept of historical causality.

Also answer the following questions in your post: How does this article excerpt give you a better understanding of the economic hardships that women campaigning for suffrage faced? What role did money play in influencing the efforts of the women’s suffrage movement? Was class a major factor shaping the movement’s leadership?

Question 2

Using the information you found during your research, write a two-page essay that answers the lesson’s guiding question, “What was life like for American middle- to upper-class women in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and early twentieth century?” Be sure to incorporate specific information from your sources and to document using MLA guidelines.

Question 3

Simone de Beauvoir was the intellectual founder of the women’s liberation movement. Tailor this thesis statement into a message suitable for an audience of high school history students.

The women’s movement’s focus on issues related to sexual freedom, including reproductive rights, galvanized support among many younger women, but it cost the movement support among many older and more socially conservative women. Tailor this message for an audience consisting of students in a Women’s Studies class.