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- Women's
Suffrage Movement
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- Easier - Women's
suffrage is the right of women to vote. The women's
suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the same
right to vote as men.
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- Harder - With a
few exceptions, women today have the same voting
rights as men. However, this was not always the
case. During US colonial times, voting was limited
to adult males who owned property. Many people
thought that property owners had the strongest
interest in good government; therefore, they were
the best qualified to make decisions.
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- In the early nineteenth century, changing
social conditions and the idea of equality led to
the beginning of the woman suffrage movement. By
then, more women were receiving education. Women
also began to participate in reform movements and
take increased interest in politics. Women and men
began to question why women were not also allowed
to vote. Supporters of this drive were called
suffragists.
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- By
Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage
Pictures, 1850-1920 from Library of
Congress
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
- This photograph collection includes portraits
of individuals, suffrage parades, picketing
suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well
as cartoons commenting on the movement--all evoking
the visible and visual way in which the debate over
women's suffrage was carried out.
- Related Website from Library of
Congress:
- 2) National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection, 1848-1921 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
- Other Related Websites:
- 3) Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment from
National Archives and Records
Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html
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- Not
for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony from PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
- Experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony. Track key events in the
suffrage movement, delve into historic documents
and essays, and take a look at where women are
today.
- Other Related Websites from PBS American
Experience:
- 2) History of the Suffrage Movement by Marjorie
Spruill Wheeler http://www.pbs.org/onewoman/suffrage.html#strategies
- 3) One Woman, One Vote http://www.pbs.org/onewoman/one_woman.html
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- Votes
for Women from Huntington
Library
- http://www.huntington.org/vfw/index.html
- The quest for women's suffrage was a struggle,
which plagued America for 72 years, for the simple
and inalienable right of representation and
equality.
- Related Websites:
- 3) History of the American Suffragist Movement
by A. Hutchinson & M.Dyer from A
- History of the American Suffragist
Movement http://www.suffragist.com/ex1.htm
- 4) History of Women's Suffrage from
Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
- http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html
- 5) Introduction (to suffrage history) by M.
Goldstein-LeVande
- http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/home.htm
- 6) Political Culture and Imagery of American
Woman Suffrage from National Women's
- History Museum http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/intro.html
- 7) Woman Suffrage in the United States
http://www.gate.net/~liz/SUFFRAGE.HTM
- 8) Women Win the Right to Vote! http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/hgv3n5.htm
- 9) Women's Suffrage in United States
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwomen.htm
- 10)Writing Women Into History: Woman's Suffrage
and Abolition Movement by L.
- Blankenship http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/wwih.htm
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- Women's
Suffrage from Grolier Encyclopedia
Americana
- http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/wsffrg.html
- This article includes a brief history of
women's suffrage in the US, Canada, Mexico, Great
Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Latin America,
Asia, Africa, as well as commentary on countries
without women's suffrage.
- Related Encyclopedia Articles:
- 2) History of Women's Suffrage from World
Book, Inc.
- http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm010.html
- 3) Women's Suffrage from Encyclopaedia of
USA History http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwomen.htm
- 4) Woman Suffrage from Women In American
History, Encyclopædia Britannica
- http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/woman_suffrage.html
- 5) Woman Suffrage from Encarta
Encyclopedia
- http://encarta.msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti=761577595&sid=8
- Related Websites:
- 6) Celebrating Women's Suffrage 106 Years On
(New Zealand)
- http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/suffrage2.html
- 7) Suffrage in Canada http://www.rockyview.ab.ca/bpeak/students/canada/mmfour.html
- 8) Suffrage Movement (Canada) http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0007.htm
- 9) Suffrage Movements in Other Countries
(Links-site) http://winningthevote.org/res_suffint.html
- 10)Women's Suffrage in Britain http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm
- 11)Women's Suffrage from Women &
Politics in South Australia http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/int_pubs/women/suffr.htm
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- After visiting several of the
websites, complete one or more of the
following activities.
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- Create A Poster Promoting Women's
Suffrage. Imagine living in a time
before women had the right to vote. Create
a poster that promotes a woman's right to
vote.
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- Perform A Play On The Woman
Suffrage Movement. You can find the
brief Reader's Theater script at Failure
Is Impossible from the National
Archives and Records Administration.
Try it.
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- Compare The Suffrage Movement In
Two Different Countries. Select two
nations and research the drive for women's
voting rights in each country. Who were
the key suffragists? How were the
movements similar and in what ways were
they distinctively different?
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- Explore Each Side. Do you think
you would have fought for a woman's right
to vote during the time of the
suffragettes? Why or why not? What factors
went into making this type of decision?
What types of people would have been on
each side of the issue?
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- Sing Some Suffrage Songs. Start
with the lyrics found at Suffrage
Sing Along Sheet.
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- Websites By Kids For Kids
- Women's
Suffrage (Web section of the 1999
ThinkQuest Project, Important Issues in
- American History During the 1900s)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/50062/Suffrage/suffrage.html
- This website reminds us that although the
movement to attain womens rights officially
began with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York,
in 1848, women strove to attain equality long
before that.
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- More Websites on Women's Suffrage
- Ahead
of their Time: A Brief History of Woman Suffrage in
Illinois by M.W. Sorensen,
- Illinois State Archives
- http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sorensen/suff.html
- This web page highlights events that led to
Illinois becoming the first state to approve the
19th amendment.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Ohios Women Voters Have Traveled A
Long Road by J.K. Blackwell
- http://www.state.oh.us/sos/womens_suffrage_cont.htm
- 3) Women's Suffrage (North Carolina) http://www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/ncbooks/suffrage/sufferage.html
- 4) Women's Suffrage in Colorado http://www.aspenhistory.org/womsuf.html
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- History
of Woman Suffrage in the United States
- http://dpsinfo.com/women/history/timeline.html
- Here you find a timeline highlighting
significant events from 1776 to 1920.
- Other Timelines for the Suffrage
Movement:
- 2) From Parlor to Politics: The Struggle for
Suffrage http://www.umkc.edu/imc/suffrage.htm
- 3) One Hundred Years toward Suffrage by E.S.
Barber & B. Orbach Natanson from
- Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html
- 4) Woman Suffrage Timeline http://www.gate.net/~liz/suffrage/index.html
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- National
Union of Suffrage Societies
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnuwss.htm
- This website highlights the evolution of
organizations in the women's suffrage movement
in
- Britain.
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- Seneca
Falls Declaration of Sentiments
- http://www.huntington.org/vfw/orgpub/declarations/decsentiments.html
- Called to consider 'the Social Civil and
Religious Condition of Woman,' a formative
convention met at Seneca Falls, New York, on July
19 and 20, 1848. This declaration was drafted,
debated, and passed by a narrow margin.
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- Suffragists
Oral History Project from University of
California, Berkeley
- http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
- Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories
preserve the memories of these remarkable women,
documenting formative experiences, activities to
win the right to vote for women.
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- Woman
Suffrage in Political Cartoons by J.
Zwick
- http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html
- The woman suffrage movement was a subject for
both satire and support by male cartoonists and a
source of inspiration for female cartoonists who
broke into the profession at the end of the
nineteenth century and first decades of the
twentieth.
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- Biographies of People in the
Movement
- 75
Suffragists
- http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/75-
- suffragists.html
- Who won the vote? Who were the women who made
up the suffrage movement? This site provides a
sampling of suffrage leaders and supporters to give
a flavor of the remarkable depth and variety which
marked the nationwide movement and to encourage
your further interest.
- Other Biography Indexes:
- 2) Leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement
from Learning Network
- http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5100.html
- 3) Men Behind the Women...
- http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/ma
- le-suffragists.html
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- Anthony, Susan B.: (1) Important
People: Susan B. Anthony, (2) Anthony,
Susan B. from
- American History 102, (3) Susan
B. Anthony by J. Litt, (4) Work
and Achievements (of
- Susan B. Anthony), (5) Susan
B. Anthony by J. Odano from Freedom
Hero, (6) Anthony,
- Susan
Brownell from Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia
- Howe, Julia Ward: (1) Julia
Ward Howe from Who2, (2) Julia
Ward Howe: Beyond the Battle
- Hymn
of the Republic, (3) Julia
Ward Howe, (4) Julia
Ward Howe (1819&endash;1910) from
- Smithsonian Institution, (5) Battle
Hymn of the Republic: Julia Ward Howe
- Paul, Alice: (1) Alice
Paul's Fight for for Suffrage from PBS
American Experience, (2) Alice
- Paul
Was Born from America's History, (3) Important
People: Alice Paul, (4) Alice
Paul,
- (5) Alice
Paul from Moondance, (6) Alice
Paul
- McClung, Nellie: (1) Nellie
McClung, (2) Nellie
McClung, (3) Nellie
McClung: 'Our Nell', (4)
- Nellie
Letitia McClung 1873-1951, (5) Nellie
McClung, (6) Nellie
McClung: The Sculpting
- of
Angels
- Mott, Lucretia: (1) Lucretia
Mott from Who2, (2) About
Lucretia Coffin Mott from Lucretia
- Coffin Mott Papers Project, (3)
Lucretia
Mott: Antislavery and Women's Rights
Leader
- from Lucid Cafe, (4) Lucretia
Coffin Mott Was Born, (5) Lucretia
Mott 1793-1880, (6)
- Mott,
Lucretia Coffin
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: (1)
Important
People: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902),
(2)
- Story
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
from PBS, (3) Stanton
and
- Anthony
Papers Project, (4) Important
People: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902),
(5)
- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, (6) Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, (7) Elizabeth
Cody Stanton from
- Who2
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- Websites For Teachers
- Exploring
Suffragists (Grades 6-12) from Learning
Network
- http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5049.html
- Students research the life of a suffragist,
then create presentations or products that show
their knowledge and understanding.
- Related Lesson/Activity Plans at Learning
Network:
- 2) Abigail Adams Writes a Letter
- http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5022.html
- 3) Suffrage Around the World (Grades 6-12) by
Pearson Education Development
- Group http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4869.html
- 4) Women and the Vote (Grades 6-12)
- http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4685.html
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- Suffrage
- When, Where, and Obstacles to
Overcome
- http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson4.html
- Here is an activity sheet for studying woman
suffrage.
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- Susan
Brownell Anthony
- http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/famous/anthony1.html
- This lesson plan focuses on the work of Susan
B. Anthony in the women's suffrage
- movement.
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- We
Declare Our Resolves from Encyclopedia
Britannica
- http://www.britannica.com/women/studyguide/stud2.htm
- "When in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary . . ." Sound familiar, these
- words kick of the lesson comparing the
Declaration of Independence and a lesser-known
- document that is important in the women's
suffrage movement.
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- 'Women,
Their Rights and Nothing Less:' The Suffrage
Movement from 1840-1920 by
- E. Hamrick and D. Levene from American
Memories, Library of Congress
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/suffrage/intro.html
- Women obtained the right to vote nationwide in
1920. Before that, only criminals, the insane,
Native Americans, and women were denied the vote.
The modern woman's suffrage movement began in the
1840s with the Seneca Falls Convention. How did it
happen and why?
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- Woman
Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (Grades
6-12) from National Archives and
- Records Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/teach.html
- This site provides primary source documents and
lesson activities for educators and students.
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