A report aboout the history of voting rights in America.
Suffrage is the right to vote in any election for a public office and for a long time women weren't allowed this right, thus the suffrage parades being held to finally attain the right.
That is because Algeria had millions of French citizens on its soil. They wanted to keep a close eye on these people and needed to fight nationalists who wanted to get Algerian independence while often harming French people, so they decided to keep Algeria a colony in order to monitor these people and protect them.