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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy: How Women Won the Right to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Thoughtful and in-depth activity-based lesson on the history of women's suffrage. Students analyze the history and evaluate the strategy used to gain the right to vote, then in small groups, write a petition to President Wilson in which...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Path to Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Students analyze maps and primary documents and share stories of the Westward Expansion relating to gaining women's suffrage.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Women's Suffrage

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out about women's suffrage not only in the United States, but around the world. An interactive map displays the dates women gained their right to vote.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage

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

National Women's History Museum: Woman's Suffrage Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of women's suffrage with this interactive timeline.
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Lesson Plan
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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Library of Congress

Loc: National Women Suffrage Association Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This vast collection houses a timeline of women's suffrage, from 1848-1921, along with information on leaders in the movement and images of original documents.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls and Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the Chester Comix panels, students will explore and discuss the Suffrage Movement, the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention and the contributions to equality made by four key figures: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
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PBS

Pbs: Learning Media: Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students view eleven different documents arguing both for and against women's right to vote. They must click and drag them in the order that they were created. As they work, they need to make a list of the arguments...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Lesson Plan
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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Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Should Women Vote? The Politics of Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the prominent people engaged in fighting for woman's right to vote throughout Europe around the turn of the century. This unit provides circumstances leading to this fight, documents supporting the right, suggested writing...
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Other

Historical Society of Delaware: The Suffrage Movement in Delaware

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of women and their fight for the right to vote in Deleware is described--and includes biographies of some Delaware women, a time line, and some primary sources.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed timeline of major events that occurred in the women's suffrage movement. Covers years 1776 to 1923.
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eBook
University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Full text of Frederick Douglass's "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1867.
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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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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will learn all about the history of suffrage for women and what influences were used to change people's attitudes. They will then use their understanding to create a modern-day election document of ephemera, for example, a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage: 19th Amendment Campaign

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the campaign for women's suffrage through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Map, Austin Woman Suffrage Association

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an interesting "Suffrage Map," showing which states had granted women the right to vote by 1913. Read how the women's voting movement was, unfortunately, soiled by racism, as shown through the map's text, "Won't You Help Us Make...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

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

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For 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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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840 1920)

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronological timeline of important events and notable women in the American Suffrage Movement.

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