How Women Won the Right to Vote

In 1848, a small group of visionaries started a movement to secure equal rights for women in the United States. But it took more than 70 years just to win the right for women to vote.

http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-20-2-a-how-women-won-the-right-to-vote
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Grades

9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects

Voting, Elections, Politics

Issues

Civility

Resource Types

Lesson Plans, Research (Digests of Primary Sources)

Teaching Strategies

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

Civic Days

Women's History Month

Constitution Articles

First Amendment - Freedom of assembly, First Amendment - Freedom of speech, First Amendment - Right to petition government, 19th Amendment, Constitution Day, Constitutional Convention, Meaning of Constitution

Tags

voting rights, Seneca Falls Convention, women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony Amendment, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Alice Paul