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Activity
Other

Fair Vote: X's and O's: A History of the Voting Rights Act and African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Documented essay on the history of black suffrage in American and the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Website
Other

Alice Paul Institute: Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist, and Political Strategist

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a detailed biography of Alice Paul, tireless champion for women's suffrage, the 19th amendment, and an Equal Rights Amendment.
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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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Website
Other

Emazine: The "Gilded Age" in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from a wider history of the world focuses on presidential administrations from Benjamin Harrison in 1890 through the Wilson administration. Read about the domestic policies and foreign affairs from 1890-1920.
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Website
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
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Interactive
US National Archives

Nara: Treasures of Congress: Progressive Reform Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this wonderful interactive site from the National Archives and Records Administration, to learn about the women's suffrage movement during the Progressive Era. See photos and primary documents related to the topic (click to...
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Handout
Other

University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica site provides a general overview of the history of woman suffrage in the United States and throughout the world.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Alice Paul

For Students 9th - 10th
A vocal leader of the 20th-century women's suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn biographical details on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
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.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Anti Suffragists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The 19th Amendment did not come without a prolonged fight. Students will examine rationale for opposing suffrage through the lens of class,
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945: The Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The Nineteenth Amendment is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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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
iCivics

I Civics: Voting Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evolution of voting rights in the United States.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
Although women rejoiced in gaining the right to vote in 1920, the women's movement stalled during this time. Read about the problems within the movement and opposition from outside the movement.
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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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Handout
University of Missouri

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Women's Fight for the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how women won the right to vote. Read a brief history of the women's suffrage movement and the text of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Primary
US National Archives

Nara: Featured Documents: The Constitution the 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Records and Administration site provides a look at the original copy of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, which awarded women the right to vote in the United States.
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Primary
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment/lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This National Archives and Records Administration site briefly discusses the background of the 19th Amendment and offers primary sources, activities, and links to related web sited for educators and students.
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Website
PBS

Iowa Pathways: The Fight for Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
The fight to give women the right to vote was fought in the states as much as at the federal level. Read about the history of women's suffrage in Iowa from 1868 until the adoption of the 19th Amendment.
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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...