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1. First state to win suffrage by popular election, and second suffrage state.
5. Term for African American homesteader who migrated to Kansas to seek a better life.
6. Abbreviation for Alice Paul's national suffrage organization.
7. __________ Aima Nawahi, publisher of Ke Aloha Aina (The Patriot) newspaper.
10. A law, such as women's suffrage, submitted to the voters in a state for approval.
11. Workers' rights organization that helped win women's suffrage in California and Colorado.
13. A fee to keep poor and black people from voting in southern states like Texas was called a _____ tax.
15. Territory that legalized suffrage in 1870.
16. A newspaper for rural women in Kansas called the Farmer's __________.
17. Form to indicate a voter's choice in an election.
19. __________ Hughes Cannon, first woman state senator in the United States.
21. Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark explore the northwest territories of the United States.
22. Abbreviation of city where Charlotta Bass published a newspaper for African Americans.
24. Song written by Queen Liliuokalani.
25. Abbreviation for state where suffragist Nina Otero-Warren lived.
26. Equality State.
27. Abbreviation for fifth suffrage state.
28. A law passed by a legislature or Congress.
29. To express your choice in an election, as in women's right to _____.
30. Suffragists sought _______ between men and women as U.S. citizens.
32. The region where the first states where women could vote in the United States was the ____________.
34. In 1913, Alaska became the _______ state or territory to approve women's right to vote.
35. Suffragist from Oregon.
37. Elizabeth ____________, African American suffragist from Colorado.
39. Maud Younger's hometown.
40. La ___________ , a Spanish-language pro-suffrage newspaper in Texas.
41. Caroline Churchill's first newspaper, named for a famous "little deer."
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2. Nina _________ -Warren, suffragist from New Mexico.
3. The right to vote.
4. Initials for women's organization in Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, and other states that opposed the misuse of liquor.
8. A person who works to win the right to vote.
9. Group to which many western women belonged to accomplish a goal.
12. Minnie _________ Cunningham, suffragist from Texas.
14. The New _____________, suffrage newspaper published by Abigail Scott Duniway.
15. Abbreviation for third suffrage state.
18. Hawaii's last queen.
19. _______ Arkwright Hutton, suffragist from Washington State.
20. ______ Younger, the "millionaire waitress" from San Francisco.
23. Susan B. ____________.
31. Caroline Nichols Churchill published this women's rights newspaper in Colorado.
32. Initials for the museum that sponsors this website.
33. State where "Minnie Fish" organized the "petticoat lobby."
35. Annie _________, Populist and suffrage organizer from Kansas.
36. Religion of many women in Utah.
38. Last name of Washington suffragist.
40. Last name of national suffrage leader who sent organizers to New Mexico. |
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