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Gretchen Storey
Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
Library of Congress Lesson Plan
June 27-29 Workshop Women and the Right to Vote!
Gretchen Storey
Cedarville High School
Lesson Overview: Women obtained the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
The Womens' Suffrage Movement began in 1840, but if finally built momentum during the
Progressive Era, with leaders such as Alice Paul Lucy Burns, Carrie Chapman Catt, and
Woodrow Wilson. Many saw women as inferior and opposed equal suffrage. In this lesson,
students will analyze various primary sources, leading up to the equal suffrage amendment.
Some questions to think about during this lesson: How were women portrayed during this
era? What would some consequences be for women in fighting for equal suffrage? Why
would some be opposed to equal suffrage?
Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Analyze political cartoons illustrating differing viewpoints on Womens Suffrage.
Analyze and Discuss pictures, political cartoons, and newspaper headlines to gather
conclusions about womens political plight during this era.
Use a variety of sources to write a newspaper editorial on the justification of equal
suffrage.
Standards:
USHG 6.3.2 Progressive Movement, the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, W.E.B.
DuBois, role of reform organizations, movements and individuals in promoting
change (e.g., Woman’s Christian Temperance Union,1 settlement house movement,
conservation Uptain Sinclair, Ida Tarbell).
Gretchen Storey
Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
USHG 6.3.3 Women’s Suffrage - Analyze the successes and failures of efforts
to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders (erg., Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Candy Stanton) and the eventual ratification of the 19th
Amendment.
Civics 6.1.1 Identify and research various viewpoints on significant public policy
issues.
Time Required:
2 Class periods
Recommended Grade Level(s):
High School
Topic(s):
U.S. History
Civics/Government
Womens' Studies
Era:
Progressive Era
1910-1920
Modern American Emerges
Preparation:
Materials:
Printed Pictures from Library of Congress for small groups/partners
Resources:
See attached Resource Table.
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Gretchen Storey
Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
Procedure: Activities
Review what the word “suffrage” means with students.
Use Political Cartoon “By Popular Demand” Right to Vote, as a whole group activity/warm up. Put on smartboard or overhead, go through the cartoon, explain
objects, symbols, captions. Have students complete a quick write on the following:
“ Do you think the message of this cartoon supports or opposes equal suffrage?”
Explain. 5-10 min. Ask a few students to share.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/i?ammem/suffrg:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a51845)):displayType=1:m856sd
=cph:m856sf=3a51845
Model/Review how students analyze pictures. Each pair or small group will analyze two
pictures or cartoons. They will use the rest of the pictures/cartoons on the resource
sheet to analyze. They will use analysis sheet provided. This will take about 15 minutes.
Each group will share inferences they have made and two questions to find out more about
this era and/or primary source. I will remind students to break each source into
quadrants when analyzing it. This way they will not miss important objects, people,
items, or captions. Students will turn in completed evaluation sheets to check for
understanding after sharing with the class.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Primary_Source_Analysis_T
ool.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Political_Cartoons
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Photographs_and
_Prints.pdf
Womens' Suffrage Primary Source Collection Link:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/womens-suffrage/
Final task will be a writing assignment for evaluation.
Gretchen Storey
Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
Extension Activities:
Read Newspaper Article on Alice Paul and Hunger Strike in Jail. Discuss as a class or
research more on Womens' Equal Rights Movement during this Era.
HBO Film Iron Jawed Angels. View portion of film. Class discussion or journal
opportunity comparing characters in the movie to primary sources found in the Library
of Congress.
Evaluation: Students will complete a writing assignment. They will write an editorial for the
Washington Post (1915-1920). They will be evaluated by using rubric from ACT prep website.
CRAFT Writing Prompt:
You are an individual in favor of Equal Suffrage during the late 1910's and you are writing
an editorial to the Washington Post. You are trying to convince anti-equal suffragists why women deserve the right to vote and why there should be a national amendment supporting
equal suffrage.
Rubric:
http://www.actstudent.org/writing/scores/guidelines.html
Gretchen Storey
Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
Resource Table
Image Description Citation URL
Newspaper Article
of Alice Paul describing force
feeding.
“Alice Paul Describes
Force Feeding.” London,
England: December
1909. From the Library
of Congress, Miller
NAWSA Suffrage
Scrapbooks, 1897-
1911.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp6014301
The first picket line - College day in the
picket line
LC-USZ62-31799
(b&w film copy neg.)
Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
20540 USA,
February 1917
http://www.loc.gov/pi
ctures/item/975002
99/
Men looking in the
window of the National Anti-
Suffrage Association
headquarters.
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs
Division Washington, D.C.
20540 USA
LC-USZ62-25338 DLC
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ite
m/97500067 /
Votes for Women: Selections from
the National American Woman
Suffrage
Association Collection, 1848-
1921 The Woman
suffrage year book
Library of Congress, Rare Book and
Special Collections Division, National American Woman
Suffrage Association
Collection.
The Woman suffrage
year book 1917-
http://memory.loc.go
v/cgi-
bin/query/r?ammem/
nawbib:@field(NUMB
ER+@od1(rbnawsa+n7
468))
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Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
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Billboard Campaign of the National Women's Party
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
http://memory.loc.gov/
cgi-
bin/query/r?ammem/m
nwp:@field(DOCID+@li
t(mnwp000345))
The sky is now her
limit
Political Cartoon, Women's Suffrage
Cartoon showing a woman carrying
buckets on a yoke,
looking up at ladder ascending up to the
sky, bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery,"
and "Shop Work."
Illus. in: New York times current
history; a monthly
magazine. New York : New York
times company, 1920 October, p.
142.
http://www.loc.gov/pi
ctures/item/200271
6769/
Suffragists Protest Woodrow Wilson's
Opposition to Woman Suffrage,
October 1916]
Women of Protest: Photographs from
the Records of the National Woman's
Party, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress,
Washington, D.C.
http://memory.loc.go
v/cgi-
bin/query/r?ammem/
mnwp:@field(DOCID
+@lit(mnwp000288))
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Cedarvill High School
Social Studies
Les Cheneaux Community Schools
By Popular Demand:
"Votes for Women"
Suffrage Pictures,
1850-1920
Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
reproduction number,
LC-USZ62-110212
http://www.loc.gov/pi
ctures/item/975002
26/
Votes for Women Broadside.
Women's Political
Union
Library of Congress,
Rare Book and Special Collection Division, NAWSA
Miller Scrapbook Collection
1897-1911;
Scrapbook 9; page 33
http://memory.loc.go
v/cgi-
bin/query/r?ammem/
rbcmillerbib:@field(
DOCID+@lit(rbcmille
r002522))