Rights for Women

In the eighteen fifties, women in the United States [began:started] to try to gain the same rights as men. One woman was a leader in the campaign to gain women the right to vote. I'm Stan Busby. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about a fighter for rights for [women:men] , Susan B. Anthony. In seventeen seventy-six, a new [nation:country] declared its freedom from Britain. The Declaration of Independence was the document written to express the reasons for seeking that freedom. It stated that all men were created equal. It said that all men had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of [happiness:joy] . Not every citizen of the new United States of America had one important right, however. That was the right to vote. At first, the only people permitted to vote in the United States were white men who [owned:sold] property and could read. By eighteen sixty, most white male citizens over the age of twenty-one had the right to vote.