"On Women's Right to Vote"

Being a woman, Susan B. Anthony was arrested when she illegally voted in the 1872 presidential election. Hear the words she used to defend her act of civil disobedience.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
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  1. indictment
    an accusation of wrongdoing
    Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election.
  2. deny
    refuse to let have
    It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
  3. posterity
    all future generations
    And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people--women as well as men.
  4. mockery
    showing your contempt by derision
    And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government--the ballot.
  5. disfranchisement
    the discontinuation of rights
    For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people
  6. attainder
    cancellation of civil rights
    is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law
  7. violation
    an act that disregards an agreement or a right
    and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land
  8. consent
    permission to do something
    To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed.
  9. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
    It is an odious aristocracy
  10. oligarchy
    a political system governed by a few people
    a hateful oligarchy of sex
  11. aristocracy
    a privileged class holding hereditary titles
    the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe
  12. ignorant
    uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
    An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured
  13. ordain
    order by virtue of superior authority; decree
    but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household--which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects
  14. dissension
    disagreement among those expected to cooperate
    carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation
  15. entitled
    qualified for by right according to law
    Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office.
  16. settle
    end a legal dispute by arriving at an agreement
    The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
  17. hardihood
    the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
    And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
  18. abridge
    lessen, diminish, or curtail
    Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
  19. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
    Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
Created on Mon Oct 13 11:07:53 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Oct 13 15:05:10 EDT 2014)

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