Curated OER
The Life of Frederick Douglass
Students discuss the importance of effective leadership in a democratic society. They study the significance of the contributions of Frederick Douglass to America. They compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on...
Curated OER
Where Do We Go From Here?
Eighth graders examine the impact of Reconstruction on South Carolina. In this Reconstruction lesson plan, 8th graders use primary documents to research sharecropping and freedman's contracts in the agricultural South following the end...
Curated OER
Immigration; The New Colossus
Seventh graders explore The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. In this The New Colossus activity, 7th graders read the poem and analyze its meaning. Students discuss what the poem means about American culture and why it was engraved on the...
Curated OER
Dictation: Male and Female Roles
In this dictation worksheet, students take dictation from a passage about male and female roles.
Curated OER
Chapter 13 – Progressivism
In this U.S. history worksheet, students read assigned textbook pages regarding Progressivsim and respond to 48 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Before Rosa Parks: Upper Grades Activity: Frances Watkins Harper
Students analyze the rhetorical strategies Frances Watkins Harper used, such as tone, emotional appeal and descriptive language
PBS
Pbs: Learning Media: Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question
In this activity, students view eleven different documents arguing both for and against women's right to vote. They must click and drag them in the order that they were created. As they work, they need to make a list of the arguments...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Working for Freedom: Susan B. Anthony [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" designed to aid understanding of Susan B. Anthony's contributions to the women's suffrage movement. Students will look at the language of the...
University of Pennsylvania
Celebration of Women Writers: English Laws for Women
Electronic text of the 1854 document, "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century" written by Caroline Norton. Part of a collection of works by women.
Read Works
Read Works: The Right to Vote
[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.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside
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...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: Why Women Want to Vote
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.
Library of Congress
Loc: Miller Nawsa Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897 1911
Digitization of seven large scrapbooks with ephemera and memorabilia related to Elizabeth and Anne Miller's work with women's suffrage.
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Winning the Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the women's suffrage movement working to gain the right to vote for all women. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Susan B. Anthony
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906 CE), the reformer and political writer who, with the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: The Women's Rights Movement, 1848 1920
Many groups and women leaders worked tirelessly to advance women's rights in society, specifically the right to vote. This tireless effort paid off with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Examine the early strides in the women's...
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Brief History of Women's Rights Movements
Find a history of the several movements that advocated for women's rights in voting, politics, and at work.
PBS
Pbs: Not for Ourselves Alone
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...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Helen Keller
Undeterred by deafness and blindness, Helen Keller rose to become a major 20th century humanitarian, educator and writer.
PBS
Pbs: Resources for the Study of Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Reformers
The developers "Not For Ourselves Alone," a PBS documentary about the lives and work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, have compiled a collection of resources useful to any study of the history of women's suffrage in...
Other
Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works
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.
University of California
History Project: Women Outside the Compass 1880 1922
Lesson on women and the push toward equality in which students analyze primary source text and images to evaluate the significance of women working for equal rights.
Chicago History Museum
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Women's Trade Union League
Read about the Chicago branch of the Women's Trade Union League and its alliance between women workers and upper-class women who supported their cause.