Viewers of a short video travel along with a young woman who visits historic sites in Seneca Falls, New York. Her goal is to try to determine what it was about this small town that helped it become the center of the Women's Rights Movement.

Concepts

suffrage, the suffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's history, women's history month, women's movements, famous women, women's rights, critical thinking

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Have groups research the First Amendment First Vote group
• Use the video to launch a study of the number of women in Congress as well as in state and local political office

Classroom Considerations

• Part of the PBS: Teaching Women's Suffrage collection

Pros

• Viewers are introduced to the First Amendment First Vote project, a non-partisan group that encourages young women to get into politics

Cons

• None