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Feminist.com: Taking a New Look at the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the historical aspects of the women's suffrage movement, with a feminist viewpoint.
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University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Although the campaign for Woman Suffrage in the United States began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, six decades later the leaders of the movement could claim victories in only four, sparsely-populated Western states, Colorado,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive and varied resource shares images of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Conduct a keyword search to explore the collection.
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University of California

History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This middle school lesson focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to help young...
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Historical Society of Delaware: The Suffrage Movement in Delaware

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of women and their fight for the right to vote in Deleware is described--and includes biographies of some Delaware women, a time line, and some primary sources.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Extending Suffrage to Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, learners will analyze documents pertaining to the women's suffrage movement as it intensified following passage of the 15th Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for African American males. Documents were chosen...
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US National Archives

National Archives: Extending Suffrage to Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The passage of the 15th Amendment sparked the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will analyze documents pertaining to the Suffrage Movement such as letters from prominent suffragists, anti-suffrage postcards, photos from parades, and...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Anti Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Why would a woman be against women's suffrage? Read about the common "fears and emotions" held by Texas women opposing the movement. Also, learn about Joe Bailey, a Texas senator who opposed women's suffrage, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who...
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PBS

Pbs American Experience: She Resisted: Strategies of Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Explores the final decade of the women's suffrage movement through powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington, D.C. procession, Ida B. Wells's successful voter registration...
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum: The Women's Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two-part lesson plan teaches students about the impact of the Progressive Movement on women's suffrage. Students will learn about rights, reform, Woodrow Wilson, and the 19th Amendment. Links to related learning material for students and...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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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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University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on major contributors to suffrage, links to prohibition, and names of early organizations to back the movement. It contains links to related websites, as well as some excellent videos.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Call for Change

For Teachers 4th
A learning module on the women's suffrage movement in New York State that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include voting...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840 1920)

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronological timeline of important events and notable women in the American Suffrage Movement.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Woman's Suffrage Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of women's suffrage with this interactive timeline.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy: How Women Won the Right to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Thoughtful and in-depth activity-based lesson on the history of women's suffrage. Students analyze the history and evaluate the strategy used to gain the right to vote, then in small groups, write a petition to President Wilson in which...
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Library of Congress

Loc: One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed timeline of major events that occurred in the women's suffrage movement. Covers years 1776 to 1923.

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