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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of women's rights in the United States.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Right to Vote

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the struggle for women to gain the right to vote. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Woodrow Wilson

For Students 3rd - 8th
President Woodrow Wilson had more than his share of difficulties during his term in office. The Library of Congress has a site with information, authentic pictures, and video.
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Carrie Burnham Argued for Right to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of one of the arguments for women's right to vote.
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary sources reveal the true resistance suffragists faced as they fought for women's right to vote. Through this collection of lessons, students will "understand the societal role of women from 1840 to 1920" and explore the history of...
Lesson Plan
iCivics

I Civics: A Movement in the Right Direction (Infographic)

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this infographic to show students how two different approaches to the women's suffrage movement worked to grant women the right to vote.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Timeline and Map of Woman Suffrage Legislation State by State 1838 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive maps show the woman suffrage campaign year-by-year and state-by-state from 1838-1919.
Handout
Danuta Bois

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Antoinette Blackwell was the first American woman to be ordained as a minister. She was a champion of woman's rights and lived to vote at age 95 after the adoption of the 19th amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
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Other

Timeline of Women's Suffrage in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a detailed timeline of events relating to women's rights and suffrage from 1776 to the passing of the 19th Amendment. Link to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
Activity
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
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University of Pennsylvania

Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1911 pamphlet that served to encourage women to rally to the cause of woman suffrage.
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Other

Etv: Ready to Vote: Why Bother?

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you ready to vote? Take this interactive quiz to see how much you know about voting rights, voting responsibility, and the government.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Women in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with detailed facts about the changing role of women in society. Provides lists of famous women of the 1920s.
Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of resource information such as pamphlets, memorials, and scrapbooks supporting women's rights and suffrage. Also a time line of one hundred years toward suffrage.
Website
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
Arrested for "illegal voting", suffragist Susan B. Anthony was put on trial, which is chronicled here using historical documents, testimony, and primary source material.
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Curated OER

Famous American Trials: Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site on Susan B. Anthony and her battle for women's rights. Find information and documents on her speeches, complete trial records, her petition to Congress, the 19th Amendment. Also includes a chronology of her life as...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Dickens's Oliver Twist:poverty, the Poor Laws and the Workhouse

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will explore aspects of the social and economic background underpinning Oliver Twist and discover Charles Dickens's preoccupations with these subjects not only as a novelist but also as a campaigner.

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