US National Archives
Docsteach: Extending Suffrage to Women
In this activity, students will analyze documents pertaining to the women's suffrage movement as it intensified following passage of the 15th Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for African American males. Documents were chosen...
Other
Federal Voting Assistance Program (Fvap)
This informative site contains information about voting in local, state and federal elections. Includes detailed instructions for absentee voting.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage
[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...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Anti Suffragists
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era
Lesson where students explore the emergence of the American system of democracy and political parties between 1820 and 1850. Using paintings by George Caleb Bingham and Richard Caton Woodville, and a political cartoon depicting the...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Civil Rights Act of 1957
Find the text of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
The Guardian
Guardian: A Timeline of Women's Right to Vote Interactive
Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.
Other
University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony
Comprehensive site devoted to the life and causes of Susan B. Anthony.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Woman Suffrage
Encyclopedia Britannica site provides a general overview of the history of woman suffrage in the United States and throughout the world.
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: Susan B. Anthony, Is It a Crime for a u.s. Citizen to Vote
Resource features the full text of Susan B. Anthony's speech along with an essay offering critical analyses, lesson plans for high school teachers, classroom activities, and suggested reading materials.
University of Oxford (UK)
American National Biography: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This site provides a detailed biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, woman suffragist and writer of the 1800s.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Alice Paul
A vocal leader of the 20th-century women's suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure for American women the right to vote.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony
In this instructional activity, young scholars will learn about Susan B. Anthony and her fight for what she believed in. Students will identify Susan B. Anthony's actions that make her an agent for change.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage
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.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: National Women's History Museum: Parading for Progress
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC completely changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Woman's Suffrage Timeline
Learn the history of women's suffrage with this interactive timeline.
Digital History
Digital History: Voting Rights
In 1964 African Americans won the right to vote, but still had to jump through several hoops in some states before actually casting a ballot. Find out how voiting evolved into 1965.
Library of Congress
Loc: Guide to Law Online: Election Law
A list of online resources about election law.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Suffragists and Their Tactics Lesson Plan
Students work with two document collections, "Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920" and "Votes for Women: 1848-1921", to understand how the suffragists changed the requirements for voting in America.
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
These are discussion topics to incorporate into your lesson on rights and responsibilities of citizens. Features questions to encourage debates or essay ideas. Also includes lesson plans.
Library of Congress
Loc: Naacp: A Century in the Fight for Freedom: Civil Rights Act of 1957
Read a brief description of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, a document adopted at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. Click on the document to see the primary resource.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Susan B. Anthony a Biography
Short biographical sketch describing early feminist Susan B. Anthony and her role as a leader in the suffrage and temperance movements. Linked to the Susan B. Anthony Trial Homepage.