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Curated OER

Women Today: An Editorial

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete Internet research to write an editorial about a topic relating to the women's rights movement and the issues presently surrounding women's rights in America and around the world.
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Curated OER

Hall of Fame

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils create a Hall of Fame. They discuss and study established Hall of Fames such as baseball. They participate in mock nominating and voting process for the hall of fame.
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Curated OER

Women's Rights Historic Sites

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use maps, readings, floor plans, photos and cartoons to research the conditions of upstate New York in the first half of the 19th century, examine the issues that led to Women's Rights Convention of 1848 and consider current...
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Women’s Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine several aspects of the Women's Suffrage Movement. In this women's rights lesson, students explore several primary and secondary sources regarding the events of the movement, opposition to the movement, and the...
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Curated OER

Confict, Consensus, and Conclusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars debate the key issues dealing with women's rights and the rights of African Americans during and after the Civil War. They analyze the women's rights movement in relationship to the desire for suffrage. They utilize the...
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Curated OER

Voting and the U.S. Constitution (Past, Present, and Future), Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and discuss the 19th Amendment, and read the document, Why Women Want to Vote. Students illustrate statements from the handbill, then conduct a play about women's suffrage.
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Curated OER

Powerful Signatures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students experience famous historical documents that were initiated and propelled by signatures such as Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution. They create a school amendment using the information gathered.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Young scholars will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to understand why a women's rights movement was necessary to gain greater rights for women.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Seneca Falls and Building a Movement, 1776 1890

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of the Seneca Falls convention is told through words, pictures, and primary sources.
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Other

Www Virtual Library: Amdocs: The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, by women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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University of Groningen

American History: Documents: The Seneca Falls Declaration 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the Senaca Falls Declaration of Sentiments authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Seneca Falls Convention Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore digital photographs of newspaper clippings about the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848. Includes a photo depicting Stanton in the controversial bloomer outfit.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"

For Students 9th - 10th
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls and Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the Chester Comix panels, students will explore and discuss the Suffrage Movement, the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention and the contributions to equality made by four key figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Seneca Falls Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Short essay on the Seneca Falls Convention, illustrated with portraits of four key drivers behind the convention: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Women's Rights and the Seneca Falls Convent

For Students 9th - 10th
The first women's rights movement advocated equal rights for white women by leveraging abolitionist and Second Great Awakening sentiment.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Declaration of Sentiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives an introduction to "The Declaration of Sentiments" from the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848, which demanded rights for women, as well as a full text accompanying it.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Declaration of Sentiments

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia page provides the text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Fight for the Nineteenth: The Fight for Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of the movement to obtain equal rights for women, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, when women won the right to vote.
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University of Virginia

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: The Woman's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 19th century women's reform movement as well as primary resources including the Seneca Falls Declaration & Resolutions, an editorial by Frederick Douglass, and excerpts form "History of Woman Suffrage."
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Other

Georgetown College: Lucretia Mott: A Great American Religious Leader

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a very in-depth, student-written biography on the life of Lucretia Mott. Read about her early influences, the Seneca Falls Convention, and her involvement with the suffrage movement.
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Other

Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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Other

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
The homepage of the National Women's History Project, this site includes links to suffrage history, timeline, a chat room, and student projects. Also information about the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention and national...

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