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Women's Suffrage
Read this article and take notes. Be prepared to discuss the "subversive censorship" included in this article.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/constitution_day/heroes/index.asp?article=womensrights
Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Case
Read this article and take notes.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_roe.html
Griswold vs. Connecticut Supreme Court Case.
Read this article and take notes.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_griswold.html
Alice Paul
Read these articles and take notes.
http://www.alicepaul.org/alicepaul.htm
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/alice-paul/
More Information about the Constitutional Amendments
In 1865, after the civil war, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were passed.
13TH AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT XIII
SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SECTION 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
14TH AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT XIV
SECTION 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
15TH AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT XV
SECTION 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
It wasn't until 1920 that the 19th amendment was passed.
19TH AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT XIX
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
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