National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage
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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Constitution Day
Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens. Learn about each of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: The Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution guarantee citizens' essential freedoms and rights.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Explaining the Bill of Rights
Read about the need for a Bill of Rights to be added to the Constitution. Find out what each of the first ten amendments means.
University of Missouri
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Women's Fight for the Vote
Find out how women won the right to vote. Read a brief history of the women's suffrage movement and the text of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: After the Fact: Virginia, New Yok, and "The Federalist Papers"
Read about the necessity for Virginia and New York to support the ratification of the Constitution. See what influenced the vote in Virginia and how the legislature of New York was finally convinced.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: United States Bill of Rights
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia gives some background history to the creation of the Bill of Rights and contains a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: Article V: Judicial Review
A discussion of the proposition that ratification of constitutional amendments is exclusively within the purview of Congress, either because of commitment or because the courts lack basic criteria of determination to pass on them.
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: George Mason 1725 1792 Introduction
This site is provided for by the University of Groningen. Leader of the Anti-federalist faction against strong national government, Mason fought the ratification of the U.S. Constitution for protection for individual rights; read this...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Us Constitution Bill of Rights
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students explore Amendments 1-10 and discuss the impact of events that led to the ratification of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Complete credit page of websites used to create...
Library of Congress
Loc: Women of Protest: Photographs From National Woman's Party
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Madison's Treasures
Documents presented here relate to two seminal events in which Madison played a major role: the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States (1787-1788) and the introduction (1789) in the First Federal Congress of...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: League of Women Voters, 1923 Report
Here is an 11-page report written by Jessie Daniel Ames, the president of the Texas League of Women Voters, which details the founding of the League of Women Voters and their activities following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
US National Archives
Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Articles V,vi,vii (Lab Team 6)
In this activity students will analyze Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's Oath of Office and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article V,VI, or VII of the Constitution in action.
270 To Win
270towin: 1804 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1804 easily won by Thomas Jefferson in the first presidential election conducted following the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.