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Women's Suffrage: Conflict and Compromise

The document summarizes a group project created by three students on the topic of women's suffrage. It discusses how the group researched the topic using databases and sources from their school and a local university. They initially planned to create a documentary but decided to make a website instead so they could be more creative and thoroughly represent the information they found on women's fight for the right to vote in the United States. The project related to the theme of "Conflict and Compromise" as women had to constantly battle the government through protests and marches for decades before being granted suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment.

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Women's Suffrage: Conflict and Compromise

The document summarizes a group project created by three students on the topic of women's suffrage. It discusses how the group researched the topic using databases and sources from their school and a local university. They initially planned to create a documentary but decided to make a website instead so they could be more creative and thoroughly represent the information they found on women's fight for the right to vote in the United States. The project related to the theme of "Conflict and Compromise" as women had to constantly battle the government through protests and marches for decades before being granted suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment.

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“Failure is Impossible”: The Conflicted Road to Women’s Suffrage

Meghan Kenneally, Ella Mathewson, Emma Sheehan


Junior Division
Group Website
Student-composed words: 1,043
Process Paper: 403
Our research has been centered around women’s suffrage. We knew from the beginning

that we wanted to research a topic on women’s rights. Therefore, that is how we started our

search. This particular topic on women’s suffrage had a ton of information. In the process of

deciding on this, we visited many databases to start finding information pertaining to the theme.

We found that this fit very well with “Conflict and Compromise”.

After establishing that our topic had enough research to form a website, we began to

record our sources and create an annotated bibliography. Some of our databases that our school

provided that gave us ample information on women’s suffrage was SIRS Discoverer and World

Book Student. Also at our school library, we searched for books and articles that would help us

create our project. Since we did not have an adequate selection of sources, we visited William

Paterson University. We had the chance to talk to judge Richard Kearney. We also had access to

the online catalog at the school, which helped us find reliable primary and secondary sources.

Many of our pictures that we used also came from the sources we were able to use at the

university.

We first had decided on creating a documentary. However, we changed our mind and

settled on a website. Part of the reason we did a website was that we had more materials to form

one at school and at home. The topic of women’s suffrage can also be represented very

thoroughly in a website. Our group was able to be more creative in this category. We created our

project by researching our topic and learning a lot about it. After getting a good bit of

information, we created a rough draft to see where we should research more. After the

information section was created, we began to plan and design our website.

Our project related to “Conflict and Compromise” because the women were in a constant

battle with the government on gaining the right to vote. Many marches and protests were in
action throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1920, women were finally granted the right

to vote in the 19th Amendment. However, women were still not allowed to divorce their

husbands, sue for sexul harrassment, had very limited job opportunities, and were treated like

second class citizens. Some of these aspects are still an issue in present day America.

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