Susan B. Anthony and Women’s Suffrage
Process Paper
National History Day, Turning Points:
Website
Emilia Toledo
Emma Sapp
Mein Lamountain
Kate Schmalz
Our National History Day project is about Susan B. Anthony and Women’s Suffrage. Our group chose Susan B. Anthony because we can relate to the topic. All of us being females in the 21st century, we don’t know what it is not to have rights and equality to our gender. But when we researched and learned about what women barely older than us experienced in their time, we thought it would be something worth researching. We students have learned in past years about women’s suffrage. This year we are beginning to learn much more about Susan B. Anthony and how she changed women’s lives. It seemed to our advantage to do our project on her while learning it in school.
Our research began with small assignments given to us by our social studies teachers to guide us with starting our project. Each one of us would find several books and websites to research and use it as a resource. This was done over a course of time, to spread out the work among us. This made it easier for us to split the work and get as much information as possible.
The four of us decided our presentation would be in the form of a website. We thought it would be an organized and interesting way of showing our work and research. We can easily separate vital information to the topic and show exactly who, what, when, where, why, and how Susan B. Anthony created such an extraordinary and impacting effect on women starting in the United States.
This year’s national history day topic is about a great turning point in history. What women have today can be awarded and given credit to Susan B. Anthony, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Voting, owning property, having jobs, education, and so much more for females comes from the hard effort Anthony put in to making sure women would never have to be told what and how to do things. Today we may have some inequalities but compared to the prohibitions placed upon women long ago, we are basically free to all rights exhibited. The change that has developed over the past century is great. The things we are able to do now are amazingly different because of the turning point Susan B. Anthony encouraged for all women.
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