Women's Suffrage in America
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Note from the author:
Students will be able to identify and explain the contributions of key women involved in the women's suffrage movement, as outlined in TEK 8.22(b), by watching the Crash Course US History: Women's Suffrage video and answering comprehension and analysis questions to demonstrate understanding of their impact on the movement. Students will also respond to a short answer question based on an excerpt from the primary source Declaration of Sentiments and record their own video opinion of the women's suffrage movement.
Student instructions: Watch the Crash Course video on Women's suffrage in America and answer the questions as you watch. You will then read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments read at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Write your short answer response to the question in complete sentences with correct punctuation. Lastly, record your video response to whether you think the obstacles put in the way of women suffragists was fair or not.
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Who is known for the quote 'Well-behaved women seldom make history'?
Who is known for the quote 'Well-behaved women seldom make history'?
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Which activist organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
Which activist organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
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Which suffragist co-founded the National Woman's Party in 1916?
Which suffragist co-founded the National Woman's Party in 1916?
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Who was an escaped slave and influential advocate for suffrage?
Who was an escaped slave and influential advocate for suffrage?
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"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men - both natives and foreigners.Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes, with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master - the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce; in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women - the law, in all cases, going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Based on the text passage from Susan B. Anthony's speech, identify and explain two specific obstacles that women had to overcome in their quest for suffrage during the 19th century. How do these obstacles reflect the societal norms and beliefs of the time?
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.
He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men - both natives and foreigners.
Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes, with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master - the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.
He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce; in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women - the law, in all cases, going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands." -Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Based on the text passage from Susan B. Anthony's speech, identify and explain two specific obstacles that women had to overcome in their quest for suffrage during the 19th century. How do these obstacles reflect the societal norms and beliefs of the time?
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