Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes

Students examine a variety of primary source documents related to the women’s suffrage movement. They identify different methods people used to influence and change attitudes and beliefs about suffrage for women. Students then create original documents encouraging citizens to vote in current elections.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/suffrage/
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Standards

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

Grades

8, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Subjects

Voting, Elections, Politics

Resource Types

Lesson Plans, Primary Sources

Teaching Strategies

Primary Source, Informational Text, Current Event, Whole Class, Whole Class Deliberation, Small Group, Small Group Discussion, Small Group Deliberation, Writing, Simulation/Role-play

Civic Days

Women's History Month

Constitution Articles

19th Amendment

Tags

suffrage, election day, right to vote, Lucretia Mott, women, voting rights, women's suffrage