Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote (Non-fiction)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not your typical woman of the 1800's. She knew what she wanted and she was going to fight for it. What she wanted was for women to have the right to vote! Having a father as a judge who would tell her about the rights of women or lack thereof, she knew the struggles women had to overcome. She decided the only way things were going to change for women was if they had the right to vote which would give them some say in the laws being made! She got together with other women who supported this idea and for most of her life she fought for this right, which was eventually granted on August 26, 1920 thanks to incredible women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

I think this would be a good book to read during election time. I would have my students study the results of a past election and see if there would have been any changes in who was elected if women had not been allowed to vote in that election. I would also have my students think and write about what they think the world would be like today had women not been given the right to vote. Would the country be more strict and cold because men usually vote for the strong willed candidates who are focused on an end goal? Or would it be a more compassionate country because women usually tend to vote for the candidates who are more compassionate and other questions of this nature.