Women's Suffrage

5th Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities

1. To read a brief history of the US Suffrage Movement, click here: http://www.rochester.edu/sba/suffragehistory.html
 
2. Connect to this link: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/suffrage/whyvote.html

3. Read the 16 reasons why women should be given the right to vote in Why Women Should Vote by Alice Stone Blackwell.

4. Create posters with slogans that suffragettes could have used in a march.

To take a virtual tour of an exhibit on women's suffrage, click on: http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/tour_1.html