Votes for Women! Path of the Reformer WebQuest
The Woman Suffrage Movement
Using the links below, conduct a brief research project based on the following questions. Answer the questions on a sheet of lined paper and add it to your notes on the life and struggle of women suffragists in the 1840s and later. This information will be very helpful when writing your narrative piece on Thursday in class.
Questions to Research:
Online Resources
Using the links below, conduct a brief research project based on the following questions. Answer the questions on a sheet of lined paper and add it to your notes on the life and struggle of women suffragists in the 1840s and later. This information will be very helpful when writing your narrative piece on Thursday in class.
Questions to Research:
- Who were the major players in the women's suffrage movement during the mid-1800s?
- Who was Anna Howard Shaw and what college did she attend?
- According to the Seneca Falls Convention, how did men abuse women in society?
- What was Woman's Journal?
- In 1873, Susan B. Anthony was taken to court and charged with committing what crime?
- List some of the trials woman suffragists had to deal with.
Online Resources
- The First Female Methodist Minister: Rev. Shaw
- Susan B. Anthony House
- The Seneca Falls Convention Information Page
- The Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
- Early Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement
- Library of Congress: State Committee Woman Suffrage Party sympathizers
- Citizenship, It's Rights and Duties - Woman Suffrage
- The Ballot and the Bullet: The Right of Woman to the Ballot
- Do You Know? by Carrie Chapman Catt (Fun Read!)
- Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession
- Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States by the National Woman Suffrage Association
- The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton