Suffragists and Their Tactics

Students will work primarily with two American Memory Collections, Votes for Women – The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage and Votes for Women: 1848-1921, to understand how the suffragists of the early 20th century changed the requirements for voting in America.

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Standards

New Hampshire, Delaware, South Carolina, Maine, Common Core, New Jersey, Florida, South Dakota, Maryland, New Mexico, Georgia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, Hawaii, Texas, Michigan, Alabama, North Carolina, Idaho, Utah, Minnesota, Alaska, North Dakota, Illinois, Vermont, Mississippi, Arizona, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Washington, Montana, California, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Nevada, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Wyoming, National Standards for Civics and Government, NCSS

Grades

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects

Voting, Elections, Politics

Resource Types

Lesson Plans, Primary Sources

Teaching Strategies

Whole Class, Whole Class Discussion, Whole Class Deliberation, Small Group, Small Group Discussion, Small Group Deliberation

Civic Days

Women's History Month

Constitution Articles

19th Amendment

Tags

voting rights, Alice Stone Blackwell, protests, Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage, election day, campaigns, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony Amendment, right to vote, women, National Anti-Suffrage Association, Women's History, suffragists