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Author:

Kamma, Anne.

Title:

--If you lived when women won their rights / by Anne Kamma ; illustrated by Pamela Johnson.

Publisher:

Scholastic,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

64 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 23 cm.

Subject:

Womens rights--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Women--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
Suffrage--United States--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Johnson, Pamela.

Contents:

What rights did the first women who settled in America have? -- Did women help win the American Revolution? -- Why did Abigail Adams write to her husband? -- Did laws about women change after the American Revolution? -- Which laws upset women the most? -- How were the laws unfair to married women? -- What did girls wear? -- Why did women complain about their clothes? -- Did girls go to school? -- Why weren't women allowed to go to college? -- Who was Lucy Stone? -- How did women earn money? -- What was America like in the 1800s? -- Why did people want to make alcohol illegal? -- Did women join the antislavery movement? -- Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? -- What started the women's rights movement? -- What did the women do? -- Who was Lucretia Mott? -- Did anybody show up? -- What happened at the Seneca Falls convention? -- Was there trouble at the convention? -- What did the newspaper say? -- Were the people from the convention upset? -- Was the convention a failure? -- Who was the leader of the new movement? -- Who was Susan B. Anthony? -- What happened when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony became a team? -- Did any men support women's rights? -- Did the marriage laws change? -- Why did it take so long to change the laws? -- What happened when women first wore pants? -- What was different about the West? -- How did pioneers in the West find out about the women's movement? -- How did women get the vote in Wyoming? -- Was there trouble when the women voted? -- What did women do during the Civil War? -- Who was Sojourner Truth? -- Why were women's rights leaders upset after the war? -- How did women speakers help change America? -- How did suffragists in England help? -- Who was Alice Paul? -- Who was Carrie Chapman Catt? -- Why did Alice Paul organize a march in Washington, D.C.? -- What did Alice Paul do next? -- What was the "night of terror"? -- When did women get the right to vote?

Summary:

Includes short biographies of Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt.

ISBN:

9780439748698
0439748690

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)