Lesson Plan
State vs. Federal Campaigns
Students will debate state vs. federal strategies for obtaining voting rights for women.
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Western Campaign for Suffrage
Students will examine why western states granted women the right to vote.
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Progressive Era Suffrage Groups
Students will compare the different Progressive Era women’s suffrage movement.
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Propaganda and Women's Suffrage
Student will examine propaganda posters from the American women’s suffrage movement.
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Seneca Falls Convention
Students will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
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Biography
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.
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General
Biography
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms was a Republican United States Representative from Illinois who served from 1929 to 1931.
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Breaking Records
Women have been competing in the Olympics since the second modern games in 1900.
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Biography
Minnie Vautrin
"Goddess of Mercy!" During the Rape of Nanking (1937-38), the Chinese women refugees under Minnie Vautrin’s protection gratefully addressed her this way.
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Biography
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a champion of the temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements.
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Biography
Shirley Chisholm
In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to serve in Congress.
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Biography
Angelina Grimké Weld
Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimké Weld became an ardent abolitionist.
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Biography
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution.
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Biography
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world records in multiple sports and cofounded of the LPGA.
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Biography
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.
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Biography
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist. She rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time.
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Biography
Biography
Sojourner Truth
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the 19th century.
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