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Go to the New Jersey Women's History Web site ( on Resources page) to view the four documents listed below. Identify what each document is, for example, a letter, newspaper account, or petition.  Also identify the action described in each document, for example, refusing to pay taxes, organizing an action group, taking direct action, or requesting legislative action.

Document 1 "Lucy Stone's Protest of Taxation Without Representation." 1858

Document 2 "The Founding Convention of New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association." 1867

Document 3 "Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland." 1868

Document 4 "Petition to the New Jersey Legislature from Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell." 1868

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