Summary

This collection looks at an array of women involved in the suffrage movement during the Progressive Era. It asks students to explore who were these women suffrage leaders, what actions and strategies did they use to gain the right to vote, as well as what may have influenced their choices and the success of the movement.  

Essential Questions

Students will develop ideas and responses to the following essential question(s) as they work with this collection:

• How progressive was the progressive era?  -overarching question for the unit
  • Who were the progressives/suffragettes?  -characteristics, beliefs, examples
  • What actions and strategies did women use to gain the right to vote?  Why?
• In what ways did your thinking change or evolve during this lesson?

Essential Standard /Intended Learning Outcome

As students work with this collection to answer the guiding questions, they will "apply social science skills to explain that the effects of industrialization and immigration led to reforms during the Progressive Movement."  -USII.4.e 

Primary Source Document Sets included

• Background documents on 2 progressive era reforms: 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) and the Indian Citizenship Act (1924).
• Introduction with 2 iconic photographs of the Women’s Suffrage movement: Youngest Parader in New York (1912) and Head of Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. (1913)
• Broadening perspectives with photographs of 6 women: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Mabel Ping Hua-Lee, Zitkála-Šá, Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, and Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren. These women often have been left out of the story of women’s suffrage although they were important leaders. Even though they faced barriers to participate and be heard, they fought for passage of the 19th Amendment while also fighting for an end to Jim Crow and voting restrictions, fighting for recognition as citizens having basic rights and protections, and knowing that the guarantee of voting rights for women would not guarantee them the right to vote.

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