Lesson
Shall Women Have the Right to Vote? (1866-1890)
Materials
- Background Essay: Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?
- Handout A: Political Cartoon Analysis: “The Age of Brass” and “I wonder if it’s really becoming?”
- Handout B: Analyze a Cartoon Worksheet
- Handout C: A Movement Divided
- Handout D: Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?
- Handout E: Suffrage by State
- Handout F: Women’s Political Voices
- Appendix A: Amending the Constitution
- Appendix B: Timeline and Quotes
- Appendix C: Timeline Cards
- Appendix G: A Pathway for Change
Lesson Components
Lesson plan
Key Terms
- Cult of Domesticity
- republicanism
- National Woman Suffrage Association
- American Woman Suffrage Association
More Information
FOR FURTHER READING
- Baker, Jean. Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragists (2006)
- Flexner, Eleanor, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography, Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, Inc. (1972)
- Flexner, Eleanor and Ellen Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States, Belknap Press (1996)
Standards
Advanced Placement
- National
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