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	Women's suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The suffrage movement was led by suffragists, defined as anyone, man or woman, who supports the extension of suffrage to women, and by suffragettes, the feminine form of the title given only to women who campaigned for the right of suffrage.
		The first women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was accidentally granted in New Jersey in 1776 (the word "people" was used instead of "men") and rescinded in 1807.
		Political movement towards women's suffrage began during the war and in 1918, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act granting the vote to: women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5, and graduates of British universities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Womens_suffrage (5692 words)

	Suffrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Universal suffrage is the term used to describe a situation where the right to vote is not restricted by race, sex, belief or social status.
		Women's suffrage was the goal of the suffragists and the "Suffragettes".
		Suffrage in the United Kingdom was slowly change over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries to allow universal suffrage through the use of the Reform Acts and the Representation of the People Acts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suffrage (1881 words)

	Women's Suffrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The philosophy underlying women's suffrage was the belief in "natural rights." Woman suffrage claimed for women the right to govern themselves and choose their own representatives.
		Women are also found in large numbers in the national legislatures of Central European countries and in the republics of the former Soviet Union, where officeholding until recently was largely symbolic.
		Women who have become cabinet officers, prime ministers, and presidents have generally not owed their electoral victory to women and, accordingly, have not felt obliged to respond to the interests of a female electorate or to appoint large numbers of women to public posts.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/suffrage/history.htm (6549 words)

	Women's Suffrage : Women & Politics in South Australia
		As well as the role played by key women such as Mary Lee, there was also community support including from men such as Dr Edward Stirling, first President of the Women's Suffrage League.
		There is 29 years difference between the date of introduction of women's suffrage, and the right to stand for Parliament, in South Australia to the granting of the right to stand for Parliament in every state in Australia, with Victoria the last in 1923.
		The events of the Women's Suffrage Centenary Celebrations are inspirational, while setting the centenary year in the context of suffrage and beyond is the three waves of feminism.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/suffrage.htm (372 words)

	Certainly male suffrage could have done nothing worse. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Concerned with the ideals of moral, social suffrage womens and political rights for all human beings, women began to organize for the first time and speak out against the injustices of their day.
		We would know how women were betrayed after the Civil War, defeated and often cheated in election after election, and how they were forced to fight for their rights against entrenched opposition, with virtually no financial, legal, or political power of their own..
		She it is who instills the love of conquest and power into her children; she it is who whispers the glories of war into the ears of her little ones, and who rocks her baby to sleep with the tunes of trumpets and the noise of guns.
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	Women's Suffrage
		Women however were not allowed to exercise their right to vote or to stand for election on that occasion.
		It is not uncommon, in countries previously under colonial rule, for women to have been granted the rights to vote and be elected by the colonial administration and to have had them confirmed at the time of accession to independence.
		Similarly, it is not uncommon, in countries that were formerly part of a federation and in which women were entitled to vote and be elected under the federal legislation, for women to have had these rights confirmed under the Constitution of the newly independent State.
	www.ipu.org /wmn-e/suffrage.htm (532 words)

	Free Essay Womens Suffrage
		They argued that women had a ‘separate but equal’ power, which was to shape their children, and if they had male children, they could shape them to vote in the way that they themselves would have, and so they indirectly have the vote anyways.
		Due to their lack of support, the women of our country found it difficult to say that all women should be able to vote, since there were women sitting at home denying it and shaking their heads at those radical women.
		Women today are still fighting for equality in the home, in the workplace, and in society as a whole, which seems like it may take centuries of more slow progress to achieve.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=28579 (1253 words)

	The National Archives Learning Curve \| Britain 1906-18 \| Gaining Womens Suffrage: Gallery Background
		The first action to gain female suffrage is generally thought to be in 1832, when a woman asked the campaigners for a wider male vote to include women.
		From that point on, the cause of women's suffrage was always present in British politics.
		In January 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave the vote to all men over the age of 21, women over the age of 30 and women over 21 who were householders or married to householders.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /britain1906to1918/g4/background.htm (859 words)

	NAWSA Time line
		Members of the Congressional Union organize a suffrage parade, carefully scheduling it for the day before President Wilson's inauguration (it is said that when Wilson arrived in town, he found the streets empty of welcoming crowds and was told that everyone was on Pennsylvania Avenue watching the parade).
		A suffrage petition signed by more than a million women signals the determination of the women of the state (and the suffrage campaign workers who gathered the signatures) to gain the vote.
		The Great War (World War I) intervenes to slow down the suffrage campaign as some--but not all--suffragists decide to shelve their suffrage activism in favor of "war work." In the long run, however, this decision proves to be a prudent one as it adds yet another reason to why women deserve the vote.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html (2217 words)

	Women and the Republican Party
		The Republican Party pioneered the right of women to vote and was consistent in its support throughout the long campaign for acceptance.
		The Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848 marked the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
		Wyoming, the state that pioneered women’s suffrage, sent two women, Therese A. Jenkins and Cora G. Carleton, to the 1892 Republican Convention in Minneapolis as alternate delegates.
	www.nfrw.org /republicans/women/1.htm (391 words)

	Womens Suffrage
		Part of the suffrage movement began working state by state for suffrage(right to vote).
		The First state to give women suffrage was Wyoming in 1890.
		-1928 The voting age for women was lowered to 21, the same as men.
	teachers.usd497.org /aadams/womensuffrage.htm (528 words)

	Let's End Womens Suffrage
		The suffrage of women needs to come to and end as soon as possible.
		Women throughout history have been subjected to the practice of Suffrage..
		History has proved that the suffrage of women is inhumane and is not to be tolerated anymore.
	letsendwomenssuffrage.com (306 words)

	Womens Suffrage, Labour & Socialist Politics in Manchester
		The movement to secure votes for women had begun in Manchester with the protests and petitions of two women in Manchester,
		She had helped found the Women's Suffrage League, and later the Women's Social & Political Union.
		Thanks largely to their efforts, by the general election of 1918, women (albeit over the age of thirty) were entitled to vote for the first time.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/modern/20thcent-1.html (1186 words)

	GameTrailers.com Forums - Lets end Womens Suffrage.
		women should neva have to suffrage u guyz who voted no are ignerant.
		LilBitEvil, unless there's some hidden fact you know about women that might make them less equal as human beings, this is the stupidest and most insulting poll I've ever seen on this forum.
		Hence, I would deem the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity, and pursues his essential purpose calmly.
	forums.gametrailers.com /showthread.php?t=34715 (517 words)

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		This article includes a brief history of women's suffrage in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Latin America, Asia, Africa, as well as commentary on countries without women's suffrage.
		The introduction covers the roots of the woman's suffrage movement in the abolition movement.
		The homes of some participants are preserved today in a Women's Rights National Historical Park, established by Congressional Act in 1980.
	www.chipublib.org /008subject/010ssh/suffrage.html (402 words)

	womens suffrage
		Womens Suffrage in Wisconsin in the early 1900s
		After a 72-year struggle, womens right to vote became one of the most important legacies of the
		Woman Suffrage Association in the early 20th century and got the campaign to its final success.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/8828.html (231 words)

	Mark Twain quotations - Womens' Suffrage
		We brag of our universal, unrestricted suffrage; but we are shams after all, for we restrict when we come to the women.
		At home, a standing argument against woman suffrage has always been that women could not go to the polls without being insulted.
		I know that since the women started out on their crusade they have scored in every project they undertook against unjust laws.
	www.twainquotes.com /Suffrage.html (640 words)

	end womens suffrage now damnit !!! - Forums4Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I remember at school touching briefly on the suffragette movement and womens right to vote, but it was certainly not in depth.
		Come to think of it I only ever read about feminism as well, we were never taught it in schools, it was never considered important.
		I think the yanks with their odd language (is it americanese?) just thought the guy was talking about "ending women's suffering" and signed.
	www.f4g.net /vb/showthread.php?t=64294 (305 words)

	A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The Moschovitis Group, Inc.
		Written by acclaimed women's history expert Doris Weatherford, this landmark book chronicles the history of the women's suffrage movement, one of the most dramatic political battles fought in the United States.
		A foreword by Geraldine Ferraro, who made history in 1984 when she was nominated as the first woman vice presidential candidate on a national ticket, links the story of the suffragists to the contemporary status of women's rights and the current political scene.
		Full of photos highlighting the people and events that shaped the movement, A History of the American Suffragist Movement is an inspiring tribute to the women who struggled so hard to extend freedom and equality to half of the American people.
	www.suffragist.com (292 words)

	Timeline of Women’s Suffrage Granted, by Country
		Saudi Arabia is the only country with suffrage that does not allow its women to vote.
		Australian women, with the exception of aboriginal women, won the vote in 1902.
		Canadian women, with the exception of Canadian Indian women, won the vote in 1917.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0931343.html (124 words)

	Womens' Suffrage Centennial 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Each person to be remembered had a story written about them and these will all be put into a book.
		Noreen CAMPBELL thought this was a good idea, and with the help of her sister Bidge and cousin-in-law Grace, three women in our family have been remembered.
		The stories of the lives of these remarkable women follow here.
	hedgehog.highway1.com.au /~brenda/suffrage.htm (85 words)

	mediazine dot org - petition to end womens suffrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yes, these girls are signing a petition to abolish a woman's right to vote.
		I don't know about you, but I knew what suffrage was when I was 8...
		These people really must be idiots, or they must have been paid.
	www.mediazine.org /view/end_womens_suffrage_petition (93 words)

	THE LIZ LIBRARY PRESENTS: THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE TIMELINE
		The Womens History Project of Lexington Area National Organization for Women.
		These works were consulted in preparing the Woman Suffrage Time Line and the Sharing Herstory presentation.
		This timeline may be distributed freely under the following conditions: that the use is not for profit; that it is distributed in complete, unchanged form; that this complete notice is intact and included in the distribution.
	www.thelizlibrary.org /suffrage/booklist.htm (505 words)

	Essay Galaxy - Importance of Womens Suffrage on Home and Life
		Importance of Womens Suffrage on Home and Life
		Women had it difficult in the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
		There was a difference in the treatment of men and women.
	www.essaygalaxy.com /download.htm?essay=8435 (63 words)

	MSS-091:Toledo Womens Suffrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.
		The Toledo Woman's Suffrage Association was founded in 1869.
		It was among the earliest chapters organized in the country.
	www.cl.utoledo.edu /canaday/mssguide/mss-091.html (199 words)

	Find in a Library: Tableau presented by the Womens Suffrage Asso., Treasury steps, March 3rd, 1913, Wash. D.C.
		Women -- Political activity -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1910-1920.
		Tableau presented by the Womens Suffrage Asso., Treasury steps, March 3rd, 1913, Wash. D.C. from Amazon.com
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/9b8d7392b78dcda8a19afeb4da09e526.html (94 words)

	YouTube - Suffrage
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		The suffrage of women anywhere is a detriment to our society.
		please contribute to the ending of womens suffrage (more) (less)
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	eBay Australia - womens suffrage, Coins Aust. Decimal, Coins items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Women's Suffrage - VOTING - 1994 Maxi Card Australia
		Suffrage to sufferance 100 years of women in politics
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	Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
		The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
		They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938.
		The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/naw/nawshom.html (217 words)

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