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Worksheet
Curated OER

Suffragettes Activities

For Students 5th - 6th
In this suffragettes worksheet, students match the words about suffrage with their meanings. Students list 8 methods the suffragettes used and one peaceful method they could have used.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Suffragettes 1903-1913

For Students 5th - 6th
For this suffragettes worksheet, learners read 4 passages about the suffragettes and women's fight to earn the right to vote. Students use a glossary to help them understand the passages.
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PBS

Pbs: Not for Ourselves Alone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, a companion to a PBS program, explores the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. With ample use of video and audio commentary, the site chronicles their work, their friendship and thus the history of the...
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Handout
Other

Women's International Center: Women's History in America

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the social conditions in America that led to the Women's Movement, along with some women's world history.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Political Culture and Imagery of Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the woman's suffrage movement in America (1840-1920), with an emphasis on the banners, ribbons, pamphlets, posters and other kinds of visuals produced by proponents of voting rights.
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Article
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: The Fall of Pa Ferguson/the Great War

For Students 9th - 10th
The women's suffrage movement continued in Texas despite the United State's involvement in World War I. This article highlights some of the events and people in Texas that paved the way for women's voting during this time, and also talks...