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"Easy and simple but can be made individual with a slight twist or a special icing. For a nice twist, can add frozen fruit just before it goes into the oven and it will burst into flavor and color."

INGREDIENTS

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar ( if you like your cupcakes very sweet, add a little more.)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence (optional)

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375f or 190c; line muffin cups with papers.
Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. beat in eggs one at a time.
Add flour (mixed with baking powder and salt) alternating with milk beat well; stir in vanilla.

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Women suffrage

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Suffragist Mother (1:36-1:40)

This segment shows women of various backgrounds abandoning their “women’s work” in order to join the National Women’s Party and campaign for suffrage. The clip of a mother handing her crying baby off to her husband is reminiscent of anti-suffrage cartoons from that period.

Force-Feeding Alice Paul (1:44-1:54)

Throughout the video Alice Paul is occasionally depicted in a straight jacket, and during this particular segment she is held down by guards and force fed_.

In November 1917, while imprisoned, Paul began a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of the suffragists .

Fearing her death, prison officials regularly force fed high protein liquids to Alice Paul, especially raw eggs.

This procedure is depicted in awful detail in the film Iron Jawed Angels, with Hilary Swank portraying Alice Paul.

Anti-Suffragette (2:22-2:38)

This segment is modeled on a political cartoon from the October 9th, 1915 issue of Puck.9 Both the cartoon and the video clip suggest that the fraction of the female population that opposed suffrage was largely supported by the male dominated interests.

The 19th Amendment (2:38-2:46)

Alice Paul reads the 19 th Amendment as it is submitted to the states. President Wilson appears concerned as the anti-suffragists make the disapproval apparent. Early in his Presidency Woodrow Wilson_took little action with regard to women’s suffrage, but by the middle of his second term he publicly offered his support to the cause. Despite Wilson’s advocacy, the amendment failed twice before receiving a two-thirds majority of the Senate on May 21st, 1919.

Silent Sentinels (3:14-3:26)

The Silent Sentinels were a group of women, organized by Alice Paul, that conducted the first-ever pickets in front of the White House Beginning in May of 1917, they would stand outside the gates of the White House six days a week, quietly holding National Woman’s Party banners and signs .

The Silent Sentinels were regularly subjected to insults and threats, and arrested on charges of “obstructing traffic” and disorderly conduct.

The Silent Sentinels’ protests ended after Congress passed the 19th Amendment in May of 1919.

“Remember the Ladies” (3:27-3:43)

This segment concludes with what is likely the most famous quote made by Abigail Adams. On March 31st, 1776, she wrote John Adams, advising him to “remember the ladies” when he and his contemporaries would craft a new, independent government. That statement is followed with the warning that, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any law in which we have no voice or representation.”

The War of the Roses and Harry Burn (3:51-4:18)

On August 18th, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment.

The vote in the Tennessee House of Representatives, the state’s lower house, was tense.

Over the previous few months Mississippi, Louisiana, and Delaware had rejected the opportunity to be the 36th and final state necessary for ratification, and the vote in Tennessee was expected to be close.

On that day supporters of women’s suffrage wore yellow roses on their lapels (following the tradition of associating yellow or gold with universal suffrage ), while opponents sported red roses.

The vote, ultimately, came down to a single representative. Harry Burn, at twenty-four the youngest member of the Tennessee House.

Expected to cast his vote with the anti-suffrage caucus, and, according to legend, wearing a red rose on his lapel, Burn stunned the legislature by casting his vote in favour of the amendment.

He later said that it was his mother who changed his mind, with a letter advising him to “be a good boy” and “hurrah and vote for suffrage.”