The Women's Suffrage Movement: Early Efforts
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Key Questions
- Analyze the arguments used to deny women the right to vote.
- Explain how the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) linked prohibition to suffrage.
- Differentiate the strategies employed by early suffragists in Canada.
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