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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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Primary
New Deal Network

New Deal Network: Survey Graphic: Suffrage in the South

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive and interesting site fully describes black suffrage in the south, and goes into detail on poll taxes. Written in 1940, it offers a fascinating perspective and historic relevance.
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

National Archives: Congress Protects the Right to Vote

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will draw conclusions regarding actions taken by Congress when passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They will weigh the balance of power between the federal and state governments when protecting the right to vote. Materials...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Abigail Adams, Sojourner Truth, and many other women played significant roles which led to the Nineteenth Amendment as highlighted in this time line.
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Amelia Bloomer was a prominent advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. She invented bloomers to replace the skirt hoop, in an effort to free women from much of their cumbersome apparel. She later used her newspaper, The Lily, to...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Primary Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1918, a vote was scheduled in the House of Representatives to give women the right to vote. Read how Texas suffragists were involved in the campaign, and about the passing of a law in Texas that would give the state's women the right...
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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
Rutgers University

Rutgers: Timeline of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of events relating to women's suffrage from 1848-1920 ending with the passage of the 19th amendment.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: History of Women's Suffrage

For Students 1st - 8th
This site summarizes the history of women's suffrage throughout various countries and continents, including: United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Africa, etc. It also briefly includes the...
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Website
Other

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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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote. Michelle Mehrtens details how the...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Right to Vote Poll Tax Ban

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an interactive timeline for the Right to Vote and banning the Poll Tax.
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Right to Vote Equality for Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of the right to vote for our nations youth.
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: About Voting

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an example of a suffrage broadside that asks "Who will give women their right to vote and when?" Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Plays

For Students 9th - 10th
Suffragist staged plays to bring attention to the cause of women's suffrage. Here is a brochure listing the various "suffrage plays" that one could order from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: People Say,we Say

For Students 9th - 10th
How did suffragists respond to many of the questions and statements of those opposed to woman suffrage? this broadside shows the woman suffrage argument using a two-column format: "People Say" and "We Say." Published by the National...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a broadside addressed to the "8,000,000 Working Women in the United States," which asks questions like "Are you satisfied with your working conditions?" and "How can you get what you want?" Published by the National Woman...
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: Why Women Want to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do working women, housekeepers, mothers, teachers and other women want the right to vote? This suffrage broadside provides answers. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: The Woman's Reason

For Students 9th - 10th
What were some of the reason's suffragists felt women should have the right to vote. This early 20th-century broadside has several responses. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Primary
University of Pennsylvania

Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1911 pamphlet that served to encourage women to rally to the cause of woman suffrage.
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PPT
Other

International Museum of Women: California Woman Suffrage 1870 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A ten-slide exhibit of the history of the movement for woman suffrage in California. Through photographs and captions, the exhibit tells the story of women working for the right to vote.
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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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Other

Wiwhc: Suffrage When, Where, and Obstacles to Overcome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online lesson compares aspects of women's suffrage from diverse cultures. Includes political cartoons from around the world.
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Primary
Other

Flickr: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Set of 40 images of primary source documents from the Center for Legislative Archives that explore congressional action on woman suffrage from 1865 to 1920.

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