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US National Archives

Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...
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Other

Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors: v.s. Naipaul

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on V.S. Naipaul, a Carribean writer, this website provides articles on his status as a "rootless wanderer," his major works, and the key themes and ideas conveyed in Naipaul's writing.
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Website
Other

Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the book "Anarchism and Other Essays" here on this site. Includes a biographical sketch of Goldman and several essays pertaining to women's rights.
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Handout
The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress Link: Voting Rights Act of 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
Explores the Voting Rights Act of 1965 from the perspective of a Congressional leader. Presents an abundant amount of historical information about the origins of the Act as well as the steps needed to get it passed.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Lucy Stone, a Chronicle Play by Maud W. Park

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-length play script illustrates the life of early American feminist and abolitionist, Lucy Stone, with strong historic perspective.
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Website
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Andrew Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive look at Andrew Johnson and his administration. Includes a biography, information on his cabinet, and most importantly, an essay on the impact and legacy of his presidency. Don't miss reading this.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For Students 9th - 10th
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's writing career is featured in this brief biography. Click "Charlotte Perkins Gilman Activities" for related resources.
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Website
Other

Federal Voting Assistance Program (Fvap)

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site contains information about voting in local, state and federal elections. Includes detailed instructions for absentee voting.
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Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Civil Rights Act of 1957

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the text of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Website
Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Liberty: Women's History

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around women's political history. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.
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Lesson Plan
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Seneca Falls Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to understand why a women's rights movement was necessary to gain greater rights for women.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Voting Rights Act of 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945: Spanish American War

For Students 9th - 10th
This practice exercise from Khan Academy covers Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The Spanish-American War is reviewed in this resource. 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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Activity
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: African American Women and the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...
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Activity
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: Postcards, African Americans Picking Cotton

For Students 9th - 10th
Though given the right to vote, African-American men and women faced discrimination and racist practices that often prevented them from voting in the early 20th century. Read about some of these practices, and how, for example, the Texas...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: A Fashionable Woman, Circa 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
After women were given the right to vote in 1919, other aspects of women's lives began to evolve, one being women's dress. No longer confined by the restrictive fashions of the 19th century, women wore dresses, like the one shown here,...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Which women made significant contributions to the early Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.? In this teaching unit, young scholars will discover the women involved in the formative years of the struggle for women's rights and the history...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Voting Then, Voting Now

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the voting experiences for African Americans beginning in the Jim Crow era. It shares literacy tests African Americans had to take and other challenges they were given for the right to vote. This denial of the right to...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: w.e.b. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter that explores how white perceptions influence African American identity. Although granted freedom, citizenship, and suffrage by the Civil War amendments, W. E. B. Du Bois explains how the emancipated black person had yet to be...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Vote, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
An appeal for black voting rights and an editorial cartoon opposing them. This resource explains that while the 15th Amendment granted black men the right to vote, southern states fought to block its implementation.

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