In this interactive lesson, using a series of digital shorts from Unladylike2020, you’ll learn about the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Progressive Era, focusing on leaders who laid the groundwork for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Throughout the lesson, you will explore the factors that led to a demand for social and economic change by examining the life and work of two influential women’s rights leaders of this era--Mary Church Terrell and Jeannette Rankin. Through video, informational text, and primary source documents connected to the stories of these women, you will examine their ideas on the importance of suffrage, and the  opposition to their cause--both in and outside the movement. Then you’ll conclude with an assignment that asks you to write an argumentative essay.

Note: Before the Civil War, women’s rights leaders like Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucrieta Mott organized for the abolition of slavery and Temperance alongside their fight to gain the vote and equal rights for women. For more information on Women’s Suffrage in this era, check out The Racial Divide in the Women’s Suffrage Movement | The Vote resource.