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Reading Skill: Cause and Effect Cause and effect is an organizational skill that helps readers
understand the relationships between events. The cause is the
reason why something happens, and the effect is what
happens as a result. Words like because and since usually
indicate a cause while so and therefore often precede effects.
Complete the causes and the effects with the correct phrases.

Causes Susan B. Anthony: Her Fight for Equal Rights Effects

Girls and boys were taught very differently .

Experiencing unfair treatment
Women were paid less than men. made Susan Brownell

Women sat in the back and were silent at meetings. Anthony work for the idea of .

equality and rights for

Women couldn’t speak in public . women. She spent her life

Married women couldn’t own any property. fighting to change the law .

for equal rights.

Women couldn’t vote .

the idea of equality speak in public sat in the back

change the law couldn’t vote taught very differently

Unit 9 | Fighting for Equal Rights