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This The Path to Women’s Suffrage unit plan also includes:
- Vocabulary Terms for Path to Women’s Suffrage: Westward Expansion to the Nineteen Amendment
- Day 1: The Path to Suffrage
- Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny
- First Wagon Train to California in 1841
- Day 2: The Path to Suffrage
- The March of the Mormon Battalion (1986)
- Declaration of Sentiments
- Day 3: The Path to Suffrage
- What Happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?
- Colorado Suffrage Excerpt
- Day 4: The Path to Suffrage
- Polygamy
- American Suffrage Association
- Day 5: The Path to Suffrage
- Review: Path to Suffrage: Westward Expansion to the Nineteenth Amendment
- Day 6: The Path to Suffrage
- Day 7: The Path to Suffrage
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The Path to Women's Suffrage unit focuses on how Western Expansion was instrumental in gaining women the right to vote through the Nineteenth Amendment. Young historians analyze maps, examine primary source documents, and create a timeline of events that lead to the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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- Ask class members to imagine it's the time of Westward Expansion, and they are about to journey by covered wagon from the eastern seaboard of the country to the west coast. They can only pack a small suitcase with their belongings. What would they pack?
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- Scholars choose to craft either a poster, political cartoon, or a reflective essay as a unit assessment activity
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