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National Park Service: Women's History Month

For Students 9th - 10th
This site highlights historic properties listed in the National Register, National Register publications, and National Park units which commemorate the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate the contribution...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the Horrific Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Led to Workplace Safety Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was one of the deadliest workplace catastrophes in U.S. history, claiming the lives of 146 workers, most of them women immigrants in their teens and twenties. The fire was so horrific it...
Handout
US National Archives

Nara: Prologue Magazine: u.s. Marines in the Boxer Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), we are provided with a discussion of the history and laws that affected immigrant women and their citizenship. Includes some information about the Cable...
Lesson Plan
University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...