Women Suffrage in America (Interactive Lecture + Primary Source Analysis)

This lesson begins with an interactive lecture about the Women's Suffrage movement. It begins with the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments, moves through the Women's March on Washington, and highlights suffragette strategies including protests and hunger strikes in jail. The lecture ends by analyzing a pro-suffrage broadsheet about the reasons why women want the right to vote. There are embedded videos included in the presentation.

Students then work in small groups to analyze anti-suffrage political cartoons to discover the reasons why many people, including some women, did not want women in America to vote nationally.

Finally, students are assessed by writing a summary of the arguments for and against women's suffrage during the Progressive era.

The .zip file includes a .ppt presentation, guided notes, printed political cartoons, and an assessment page with clear directions for writing a summary. There is also a 4-point rubric for grading the assessment.