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Amber Smith 4/22/12  __Explanation__

When choosing 10 events for my timeline, I tried to pick events that were so important, that if they were removed, it would impact the movement. At first this was hard to do, because all of the events have meaning, but then after reading them carefully, I was able to see which events key components.

For the first event, I chose the first event on the ist, not because it was simply that, but because the Anti-Slavery Convention started the entire Women Suffrage Movement, and without this event, the movement would have ended up differently. For the second event, I chose the second event on the list, where hundreds of people came to support the First Women’s Rights Convention. I chose this event because in order to make change, you need people to back you up, and to help you. This event is important because it proved that people did want change, and that people were there to support women nationwide. I chose the event from 1867, when Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Clarina Nichols, and others traveled to Kansas to agitate for women's suffrage. I felt that this was another key moment, because it was one of the first steps to getting women’s rights. A large part of the movement, was protesting and agitating for women’s suffrage, and this is what his third event is all about. I chose the event from 1868, when former slaves were allowed to vote, according to the 14th amendment. The more important part of this event was that in the 14th amendment, it stated the word, “male”, but not the word female, and this outraged Anthony and Stanton. I chose this event, because this was more motivation for anthony and Stanton to make change, which in the end they did, so I felt that this was the right choice. Event number five was from the year 1869, when Anthony and Stanton created the National Woman Suffrage Association. This event was significant because it was another huge step to change, and it was another way to gather more people to help and support the movement. After all, the more people you have to help protest and agitate, the better.

The second half of the events is more important because these events were the ones that guaranteed change. The sixth event was from 1883, when women from Washington territory were allowed to vote, and the National and American groups joined forces. THis event was so important because it showed that all of the hard work and effort is paying off, because little by litle, women are getting the right to vote. The fact that National and American groups joined together shows that these groups are going to become more powerful, and therefore, more change, (for the better), is going to happen. The seventh event took place in 1890, when the national and American groups join forces with the the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and becomes president. This event is significant for the same reasons hst event number six was significant; because it shows that these groups are getting more powerful. The bigger and powerful your group is, the better. The eighth event was in 1918, when, “President Wilson issued a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant women's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.” This is a significant event, because it shows that the groups are being heard, but it will take some more time. This is also a significant moment because it leads up to the two other moments. The ninth event was in 1919, when, “for a third time, the House voted to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment, and suffragists began their ratification campaign.”. This is very significant, because Women are so close to reaching their goal, after all their hard work and effort. One year later, in 1920, Women across America rejoiced because their hard work had paid off, and all women were allowed complete voting rights.

Completing this timeline, and reading about these events was very beneficial, because it helped me to understand the women’s suffrage movement even better. Maybe I will learn about this movement again at a different time in my high school, or even college career.

    Amber Smith <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4/16/12 <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__Generation Citizen__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As a class, we have chosen to try to teach kids about the effects of drugs and why doing drugs is never a good thing, so that no more kids won't even think to try and do drugs. In order to teach the kids, we are planning to go to schools, and create a whole lesson around all of the negatives of drugs. In the past, all kids have heard that drugs are bad, and don't do them, so with this project we want to make it so that the lesson is good, and the kids walk out with good messages in their heads. This project is very important to me, because we would be working with young kids and help them in a positive way, and I think it is always important and beneficial to help young kids.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When it comes to what we would actually do with the kids, is still a little vague at the moment. We have come to a decision that we would work with 6th graders from different school, and create a lesson plan about the statistics of drug use in teens, and younger kids, along with what actually happens to a person’s body after drug use. another thing that we want to teach the kids is how to cope with One of our main goals as a class, is to make the lesson effective and really well done, so that the message of doing drugs is never a good thing is delivered to these young kids. If we can get these young kids, who haven’t started doing drugs to understand all of these things, then maybe when they get older, they won’t have to deal with drug use and peer pressure. Hopefully, they can skip this completely, so their life can be drug free.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When we teach kids about the effects and bad sides of drugs, I hope that we include something about peer pressure. Peer pressure is an important thing to go over with young kids, because a lot of the time, peer pressure leads kids to do drugs. If we can teach kids how to deal with peer pressure and how to avoid it, there is an even greater chance that their lives will be drug free. In the very beginning of the entire Generation Citizen unit, when we were trying to come up with a topic, a little more than half of the class, all agreed on this issue, which was really interesting to me because a lot of us were thinking the same thing. I think this is so because we all attend th same school, and we all know that there is drug use in the school, and some of us have even seen people using drugs. We all feel the same way in the sense that if there were no drugs, then the environment would be so much better without drugs, and we all want to prevent future drug use, so that the future high schoolers can have an even better drug free high school experience. For this reason, I really hope that our project is successful. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">