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Women's Suffrage Movement PPTWomen's Suffrage Movement PPT
Publisher
National Woman's History Museum
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Presentations
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Duration
30 mins
Number of Slides
20
Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
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Women's Suffrage Movement

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The National Women's History Museum offers a 20-slide presentation that details the history of the Women's Suffrage Movement from its creation in the 1830s through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

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suffrage, the suffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's history, women's history month, the united states constitution, voting rights, abigail adams, abolitionists, the abolitionist movement, slavery, elizabeth cady stanton, sojourner truth, racism, gender bias, the united states civil war, primary source images, the thirteenth amendment, the fourteenth amendment, the fifteenth amendment, wyoming, the populist party, woodrow wilson, world war i, african american history, harriet tubman, jim crow laws, segregation, the nineteenth amendment, equal rights

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the presentation to introduce a unit study of the Women's Suffrage Movement
  • Brainstorm a list of topics they would like to research in greater depth, assign groups different topics, and have them present their findings to the whole class

Classroom Considerations

  • The resource can be used in the classroom or assigned as remote learning
  • Each description is paired with a primary source image

Pros

  • The presentation captures the decades-long struggle for women's suffrage
  • Details the differences in the philosophies and approaches of the various women's suffrage groups
  • Includes information about the Laws of Coverture

Cons

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