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Website
The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress for Kids: Constitution: Women's Right to Vote

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information and activities that underscore the significance of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which legalized women's right to vote.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women voting rights.
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Lesson Plan
University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Religious Revival

For Students 5th - 8th
The Second Great Awakening was transformative in ways beyond religion. Read about the new ideas about religion and see how they emphasized individual dignity and worth. This then reflected on the early ideas of women's suffrage, and the...
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Interactive
New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
The New York Times presents an interactive, online crossword puzzle on women's suffrage. Upper elementary students can participate with some guidance.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Which women made significant contributions to the early Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.? In this teaching unit, students will discover the women involved in the formative years of the struggle for women's rights and the history of...
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Website
Other

U.s. History Timeline: 1865 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A thumbnail look at the many things occurring in the United States in the last half half of the 19th century. The topics covered are Gilded Age Politics, the "New Imperialism," Industrial America, Growth of Labor, Urbanization,...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: Jeannette Rankin (1880 1973)

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a brief biographical sketch on Jeannette Rankin, a women's rights activist who was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Primary
Other

D Archives: Alice Stone Blackwell, Objections Answered

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this 1915 essay by Alice Stone Blackwell, who outlines the basic reasons women should be granted equal voting rights in the U.S.
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Handout
Other

International Museum of Women: Women, Power, and Politics: Political Firsts

For Students 9th - 10th
A short history of women's struggle for political equality in the United States told in a series of firsts. Answers such questions as, who was the first woman to run for election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and who was the...
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Handout
US National Archives

Nara: Prologue Magazine: u.s. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), we are provided with a discussion of the history and laws that affected immigrant women and their citizenship. Includes some information about the Cable...
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection provides a unique view of American History using items such as posters, business cards, flyers, catalogs, advertisements and leaflets. These items capture experiences from important turning points such as the American...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: "Women Vote Under These Flags" Broadside

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting broadside showing flags of countries that allowed women to vote, and asking under the U.S. flag, "Why do not all women vote under the flag of democracy?"
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Women's Rights

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about some outspoken women in the 1830s and 1840s, who began speaking out for reforms of many kinds, particularly on the issue of slavery and the rights of women to vote. The Seneca Falls Declaration pushed this idea of equality.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Suffrage Wins in Senate

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 1919 news article about the Senate passage of the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Primary
Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
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Activity
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.
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Handout
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Historian's Perspective: Winning the Vote: History of Voting Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Historian-authored three-part overview looks at the history of voting rights in America, touching on all the critical moments in American history when voting rights were first denied then granted to...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Great War & Jazz Age (1914 1928)

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Library of Congress time-line series surveys World War I and the Jazz Age. When World War I broke out in Europe, many changes were going on in the United States. Women were voting for the first time and African-American culture was...
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Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Lesson Plan
Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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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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Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835 1930)

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical essay on Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate and also a reformer associated with woman suffrage and women's rights.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: u.s. Constitution Changes With the Times

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Clear, concise overview of the "voting" amendments to the Constitution. Includes quotes from 20th century Justices and Presidents about Amendments they thought were needed.