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The Women’s Movement and the Seneca Falls Convention

Duration
55 min
Grade
9–12
Published
Nov 15, 2020
Image of women's rights protest
This Lesson should follow the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Narrative.

Learning objectives

  • Students will trace the growing public voice of women in the United States, including important female figures in various reform movements.
  • Students will compare the style and main ideas of the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (commonly called the “Declaration of Sentiments”).
  • Students will analyze the writings of men and women central to the rise of the women’s rights movement.
  • Students will analyze the contributions of the Grimke sisters, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and other leading movement figures.

Materials

Lesson plan

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More Information

The content of this lesson strays beyond the time period of this chapter (1800-1844) but focuses on the origins of the women’s movement in the antebellum years.

Standards

Advanced Placement

  • Topic 4.6 · Market Revolution: Society and Culture
  • Topic 4.11 · An Age of Reform
  • Theme · American and Regional Culture
  • Theme · Social Structures
  • Learning Objective · Unit 4F
  • Learning Objective · Unit 4K
  • Historical Development · 4.2.II.C
  • Historical Development · 4.2.III.C
  • Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
  • Reasoning Skill · Sourcing and Situation
  • Reasoning Skill · Source Claims and Evidence
  • Reasoning Skill · Contextualization
  • Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
  • Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
  • Reasoning Process · Comparison

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