Practice Using Timelines to Reconstruct History Practice
World History, Culture and Geography Sem 1
In this assignment you will complete the following steps:
1. Research: Using reliable resources, research key event
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Practice Using Timelines to Reconstruct History Practice
World History, Culture and Geography Sem 1
In this assignment you will complete the following steps:
1. Research: Using reliable resources, research key events, people, and ideas that
contributed to the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
2. Create: Create a timeline of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
3. Analyze: Answer questions about the causes and effects of the women's suffrage
movement in the United States.This section is worth 10 points. See the scoring rubric below for more details on how you will be
graded on your research.
Part I: Milestones of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Listed below are 10 important people, events, and ideas from the women's suffrage movement
in the United States. Using reliable resources, conduct research to discover when each person
lived or each event or idea happened. Also note how each person, event, or idea contributed to
the women's suffrage movement.
Begin your research at these websites. There, you will find links to other web pages and sites
that may be helpful as well.
● National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
● The Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership:
http://www.rochester.edu/sba/suffrage-history/
● National Park Service: Women's Rights Movement:
http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/womens-rights-movement.htm● National Archives: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment:
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/
Person/Event/Idea Relevant Dates Contributions to Women's Suffrage Movement
Abolitionism
Through 1865
The abolitionism movement was an effort to end
slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom
and believed everybody was created equal.
Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B Anthony worked for several other rights
for women including the right of women to
divorce, have guardianship of children, equal pay
and improved rights.
First National
Woman's Rights
Convention 1850
A convention to further the cause of women’s
rights
Lucretia Mott1793-1880
Helped found the Philadelphia Female AntiSlavery Society.
National American
Woman Suffrage
Association 1890
Split the American Equal Rights Association over
whether the women's movement should support
the fifteenth amendment to the United States
Amendment.
Nineteenth
Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution 1919
The right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of sex
Seneca Falls
Convention 1848
First women’s rights convention to discuss the
social, civil, and religious condition and rights of
woman.
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
An American suffragist, social activist, and1815-1902 abolitionist. One of the leading figures of the
early women’s rights movement.
Sojourner Truth
1797-1883
An African-American abolitionist that escaped
slavery with her daughter to freedom
Wyoming becomes a
U.S. state
1890
Wyoming became the 44th state on July 10,
1890
Part II: Other Key Events
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