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Historical ResearchThe Women’s Suffrage
Movement
Dr. Teresa Jacobs
www.educationdesigns.info
A Practical Approach to learning
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What can we use to formulate Historical Questions?
Historical documents
Eyewitness accounts
Letters Diaries
Artifacts Photos Historical Sites Art Architecture Other records of the
past
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Abigail Adams“Remember the Ladies”
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The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Susan B. Anthony: In Favor of Women's Suffrage
(1872)
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Questions to Consider Why did the suffragists chose the
Declaration of Independence as a model? What do the writers of this document want,
or want to express? How is the argument of “absolute tyranny
over” women supported? Why were some women opposed to the
women’s suffrage issue?
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Women’s Suffrage
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Declaration of Sentiments The Declaration of the
Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respected by society.
It was signed by 68 women and 32 men.
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Agnes Nestor: Working Her Fingers to the Bone (1898)
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Headquarters of an Anti-Suffrage Group (c.1910)
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Anti-Suffrage Pamphlet (c.1910)
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Alice Miller: Why We Don't Want Men to Vote (1915)
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"Kaiser Wilson"
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Carrie Chapman Catt: Do you know? (1918)
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Alice Paul
"Resistance to tyranny is
obedience to God."
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Lucy Burns
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Harry T. Burn “Don’t forget to be a Good Boy”
Harry T. Burn’s letter
from Mom and the
Ratification of the 19th Amendment in
Tennessee
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Passage of the 19th Amendment Passed in 1919 “The right of
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
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Women’s Suffrage Map
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Historical ResearchA good teacher acts as a messenger
from the past, empowering students through historical research.
A good student uses historical research techniques and is thus empowered to make informed decisions.
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Questions to Consider Why did the suffragists chose the
Declaration of Independence as a model? What do the writers of this document want,
or want to express? How is the argument of “absolute tyranny
over” women supported? Why were some women opposed to the
women’s suffrage issue?
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Resources http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/abigailadams.html http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/images/2003/ElizabethCadyStanton.jpg http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b30000/3b39000/3b39700/3b39726r.jpg http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/images/hall/nestor.jpg http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_opposed_suffrage_hq.htm http://www.jwa.org/teach/primarysources/orgrec_08.pdf http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/men_not_vote.htm http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/CCCatt.jpg http://www.alicepaul.org/alicepaul.htm http://www.nwhm.org/Education/lburns.html http://www.teachamericanhistory.org/File/Harry_T._Burn_Top_10.pdf http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/amendment_19.gif http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw08_12159.html http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/fem-vote.htm http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_19tham_1_e.jpg http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/kaiser-wilson.html
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Historical ResearchThe Women’s Suffrage
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Dr. Teresa Jacobs
www.educationdesigns.info
A Practical Approach to learning
