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Wow Museum: Western Women's Suffrage Wyoming

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the place Wyoming holds in the history of women's suffrage. Even before statehood, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote. Find out how important that was to those who lived there.
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US Department of State

America.gov: Seneca Falls Convention Began Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the convention that not only paved the way for women's rights but also lead to women's suffrage. This article describes the political climate that motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other proponents of...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a fiery advocate for women's rights. Read an account of her actions and see a portrait of her painted by American artist, Anna Klumpke.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Seneca Falls Convention Scrapbook

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore digital photographs of newspaper clippings about the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848. Includes a photo depicting Stanton in the controversial bloomer outfit.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: The Second Great Awakening

For Students 9th - 10th
What did the Second Great Awakening have to do with women's rights and social reform? How was it a stepping stone for the women's suffrage movement? Find out how this movement, which emphasized individual worth, empowered women...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: Abolition and Early Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
How was the anti-slavery movement tightly connected with women's right to vote? Explore the efforts of women abolitionists, who realized that "the injustice they wanted to remedy for blacks also applied to women." Primary texts at this...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: African American Men Get the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways in which the women's suffrage movement, after African-American men were given the right to vote, fell short. Read texts from this period of time.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of this famous women's rights leader.
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Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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US House of Representatives

History, Art, and Archives: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
Many groups and women leaders worked tirelessly to advance women's rights in society, specifically the right to vote. This tireless effort paid off with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Examine the early strides in the women's...
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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.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Women's Rights: How Five Women Changed the World

For Students 9th - 10th
This site introduces the Women's Rights National Historical Park. Touches on information about the Seneca Falls Convention and the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments. Hyperlinks lead to additional information.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a brief biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the first leaders of the American women's rights movement. Read on to learn about her family life, education, and partnership with Susan B. Anthony.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 3rd - 5th
America's Story tracks the woman's rights movement through the eyes of one of the leaders of the movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked side by side with Susan B. Anthony to secure voting rights for women.
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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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The History Place

The History Place: Great Speeches Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a good selection of historical and relatively modern speeches from many English-speaking countries. Each speech is set up in its historic context. Many are available with audio links.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902 CE), noted suffragist and reformer of the women's rights movement. Additional content includes a photograph and Stanton's statement before the Judiciary...
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Rutgers University

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Find documents by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the extensive collection from Rutgers University.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Excerpts From Her Autobiography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains excerpts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's autobiography.
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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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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Women's Suffrage at Last

For Students 5th - 8th
Trace the history of the women's suffrage movement from its organized beginnings in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention to the final success with the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which constitutionally granted women the right vote.
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National Women’s History Museum

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline explores women's suffrage from 1840 to 1920.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Destructive Male

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the text to a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the Destructive Male. In this speech, given in 1868 by Stanton at the Women's Suffrage Convention, she gives her views on how males have...