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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: National Women's History Museum: Parading for Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC completely changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of women's suffrage during the Progressive Era with links to documents of the time primarily supporting women's right to vote although there is some documentaion of opposition also.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website from EDSITEment has a lesson plan that examines the push and pushback for voting rights for women. Using primary sources such as political cartoons and letters, find out why people were opposed to universal suffrage, 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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Other

Whc Women's Suffrage: The Fight for Washington Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of women's suffrage in Washington state as the legislature developed policies in both the Territorial Legislature and as it prepared to become a state.
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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: Leaflet Regarding Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Leaflet regarding women's suffrage in Wyoming, presented at the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893. View the original document and a transcript of the text.
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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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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Political Culture and Imagery of Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the woman's suffrage movement in America (1840-1920), with an emphasis on the banners, ribbons, pamphlets, posters and other kinds of visuals produced by proponents of voting rights.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Carrie Chapman Catt: Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Carrie Chapman Catt's address to the Congress on Women's Suffrage in November 1917, in Washington D.C.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The 14th and 15th Amendments

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments that helped to transform the women's rights movement.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
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Other

D Archives: Alice Stone Blackwell, Objections Answered

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this 1915 essay by Alice Stone Blackwell, who outlines the basic reasons women should be granted equal voting rights in the U.S.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Women of Protest: Photographs From National Woman's Party

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a collection of photographs from the Library of Congress that show the militant tactics of the National Woman's Party in its support of woman's suffrage. In addition to the photographs, there are articles about this branch of the...
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Other

Ipu: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
American women could run for election in 1788, but could not vote until 1920. This and other ironies are revealed in this timeline that shows the progression of women's political rights in countries from around the world.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Theodora Winton Youmans and Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Theodora Winton Youmans is attributed with changing public perceptions of women's suffrage in Wisconsin so that the state became the first to support it in 1919. She did this by pushing for change in federal laws, even going against her...
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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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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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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
See a sculptured bust and read a brief biography of Susan B. Anthony, foremost supporter of women's suffrage.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a fiery advocate for women's rights. Read an account of her actions and see a portrait of her painted by American artist, Anna Klumpke.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Inst.: Women's Political Rights in Connecticut 1830 1980

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers and students alike can check out this site to learn about the women's suffrage movement in Connecticut. The brief history is followed by lesson plan suggestions.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Students 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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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview, political beliefs, and core values.

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