Women's Suffrage
Weighing the Evidence

About this Activity
- Created by:Joan Lange
- Historical Era:The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Thinking Skill:Historical Issues-Analysis & Decision-Making
- Bloom's Taxonomy:Analyzing
- Grade Level:Middle School
The Women's Suffrage movement increased in momentum during the years of America's involvement in World War I (1917-1918). Did the role of women in the homefront and abroad in the warfront influence opposition to or support of women's right to vote?
https://www.docsteach.org/activities/student/12-womens-suffrageDocuments in this activity
- Letter from the Alabama Male Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage
- Manufacturing Spiral Puttees in New York City
- Petition for Woman Suffrage from Frederick Douglass Jr. and Other Residents of the District of Columbia
- Petition from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America for National Woman's Suffrage
- Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York
- Photograph of Marine Corps First Class Private Edith Macies
- Women Enrolling in the War Effort
- Postcard from the Georgia Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage
- Central Pennsylvania Women's Suffrage Association Joins the Red Cross Parade
- Senator Borah's Letter from the Georgia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
- Denver Post Suffrage Petitions
- Suffragists Picket White House
- Training School for Women Workers at the Watertown Arsenal
- Protestors Holding a Woman Suffrage Banner
- Women Electric Welders at Hog Island Shipyard
- Women Taking Place of Men on Great Northern Railway