Overview
In this interactive lesson, you’ll learn about the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Progressive Era, focusing on leaders who laid the groundwork for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Throughout this lesson, you will explore the factors that led to a demand for social and economic change by examining the life and work of two influential women’s rights leaders of this era--Mary Church Terrell and Jeannette Rankin. Through video, informational text and primary source documents connected to the stories of these women, you will examine:
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their ideas on the importance of suffrage
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opposition to their cause--both in and outside the movement
By the end of this lesson, you will answer the essential question:
Essential question
Did women’s suffrage help propel women forward in American society?
Using videos, primary and secondary sources, and a variety of interactive tools, you'll also respond to the following supporting questions:
supporting questions
- What rights were not gained when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified?
- Would women’s suffrage have happened without the work of privileged women?
- Which women’s organizations and networks laid the groundwork for the suffrage movement?
- What opposition did the women’s suffrage movement face – both inside and outside the movement?
