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Why Should Women Vote? The Suffrage Question

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An online interactive activity asks learners to analyze a group of documents related to the women's suffrage movement and then place the documents on a timeline. The results assess users understanding of the progression of the women's suffrage movement.

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Concepts

suffrage, the suffrage movement, women's suffrage, the nineteenth amendment, voting rights, the voting rights act, voting, women's history, women's history month, women's movements, women's rights, close reading, reading comprehension

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

After individuals have completed the activity, have partners compare their timelines and share what information found in the resources justifies the placement order on their timelines
Use the resource to assess how well individuals understand the key events in the study of women's suffrage

Classroom Considerations

Part of the PBS Teaching Women's Suffrage Collection
Researchers must have access to computers linked to the internet

Pros

Students must read carefully to find evidence to justify the placement of the documents on the timeline

Cons

The documents will only remain on the timeline if dragged to the correct spot; therefore, users can drag documents without reading them

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