What it Means to be an Active Citizen! To be an active citizen it means that you as a citizen has to help yourself and your society. You can help yourself by treating your self right, such as eating correctly and giving yourself no harm like doing illegal drugs or having someone ordering you around like some slave! You can help your town by going to town meeting to see what or who needs help. …showed first 75 words of 280 total…

…showed last 75 words of 280 total…she went so far as to illegally cast a vote in the 1872 Presidential elections. Her consequence on this act was a crime for which she was arrested. In 1902,Susan B. Anthony urged her fellow women to continue to fight, saying, “Failure is impossible,” in her final public speech. It was not until 1920, 14 yrs after Susan B. Anthony’s death, that the 19th amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**