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Women's Suffrage Movement Across America ActivityWomen's Suffrage Movement Across America Activity
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Women's Suffrage Movement Across America

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An engaging resource provides many primary source materials to inform a study of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Suggestions include building a timeline of the fight, using the documents as the basis of a DBQ, and/or using a Venn diagram to analyze the arguments put forth in the documents for and against suffrage.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

civil rights, women's suffrage, suffrage, the suffrage movement

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the packet to provide primary source documents for a unit study of civil rights and women's suffrage

Classroom Considerations

  • Although the topic is mentioned, no direct link to materials that discuss the opposition to the extension of the right to vote to black women is included

Pros

  • The 11-page packet includes the historical background of the movement, primary source materials, links to related collections of resources, and a list of suggested research topics

Cons

  • No lesson plans are included

Common Core

RI.9-10.1 RI.11-12.1 RH.6-8.1 RH.9-10.1 RH.11-12.1

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