The Early Women's Rights Movement
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Essential Questions:
Have the goals establish by the 1848 Women's Rights Convention been achieved? What arguments and tactics used by the women's right movement (1848-1920) were the most effective in the fight for women's suffrage? What American woman deserves a place on this sculpture (see the photo to the left) along side Stanton, Mott, and Anthony? |
Some of the Unit Assignments:
| Primary Source: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 |
| Facts and Statisics about American Women Today |
| Rating Women's Progress Since 1848 |
| Graded Writing Assignment |
Online Resources
Essay on the Legal Status of Women 1776-1830 (by Marylynn Salmon):
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/womens-history/essays/legal-status-women-1776%E2%80%931830
Essay: The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women’s Suffrage (by Judith Wellman): https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/first-age-reform/essays/seneca-falls-convention-setting-national-stage-for-women%E2%80%99s-su
Online Exhibit: Rights for Women (from the National Women's History Museum)
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/introduction.html
Audi0: NPR Story on Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137681070/for-stanton-all-women-were-not-created-equal
Videos:
Women in the 19th Century (Crash Course US History): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1czS_VYDI
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEaHGgUV-Q
Lucretia Mott: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYiu0Y-OTSc
Susan B. Anthony (Mini-Bio): www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-suAlXQhMI
Susan B. Anthony (Smithsonian Channel): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB9fApRcYFw
1848 Seneca Falls Convention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H-TiM5x8-A
Declaration of Sentiments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2QXILN0nc
Alice Paul & Women's Sufferage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdHe-55rqA
One Woman One Vote (a documentary on the fight for Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEWTsJcJgQ
Essay on the Legal Status of Women 1776-1830 (by Marylynn Salmon):
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/womens-history/essays/legal-status-women-1776%E2%80%931830
Essay: The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women’s Suffrage (by Judith Wellman): https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/first-age-reform/essays/seneca-falls-convention-setting-national-stage-for-women%E2%80%99s-su
Online Exhibit: Rights for Women (from the National Women's History Museum)
http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/introduction.html
Audi0: NPR Story on Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137681070/for-stanton-all-women-were-not-created-equal
Videos:
Women in the 19th Century (Crash Course US History): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1czS_VYDI
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEaHGgUV-Q
Lucretia Mott: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYiu0Y-OTSc
Susan B. Anthony (Mini-Bio): www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-suAlXQhMI
Susan B. Anthony (Smithsonian Channel): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB9fApRcYFw
1848 Seneca Falls Convention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H-TiM5x8-A
Declaration of Sentiments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2QXILN0nc
Alice Paul & Women's Sufferage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdHe-55rqA
One Woman One Vote (a documentary on the fight for Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEWTsJcJgQ