HSWomensSuffrage

Analyze the goals and effect of the antebellum women's suffrage movement. a. the 1848 Seneca Falls convention b. Susan B. Anthony c. Margaret Fuller d. Lucretia Mott e. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * Massachusetts History Framework Standards: US1.33**

How did Americans imagine their natural rights and then attempt to institutionalize these as law, and with what effects on the disenfranchised?
 * Essential Question:**


 * Unit Goal:** Students will apply the basic principles of historical thinking by researching and weighing primary information sources and forming their own conclusions from those sources to interpret the rise of the female rights' movements in Europe(England and France) and the United States.

Guiding Question:** What were the characteristics of social equality of the postbellum struggles women faced in 1830-1870? 1. audio, photos or text from the Women's Rights Convention dated 1850-1851 in Worcester, Ma 2. Harper's Weekly dating 1850-1851 documenting the Women's Rights Conventions in Worcester MA 3. Sojourner Truth's lists of works between 1850-1851 (where she might have spoke and appeared) - specifically her attendance at the Women's Rights Conventions in Worcester 4. Agenda or pamphlet stating topics covered in the Conventions 5. Abby Kelley Foster of Worcester MA - speaker at Conventions possibly circa 1850-1851 6. Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of MA 7. general information about the Women's Rights Conventions, first one dated 1850 and second dated 1851
 * __Melissa Monteiro__
 * Objectives:** Students will understand how women joined together socially and civilly to gain rights regardless of color. Students will understand the similarities and differences between women's social and civil right struggles in US vs. Europe and the effects one had on the other. Students will examine the National Convention in Worcester, MA.
 * Primary Source Documents and Artifacts:**


 * BPL Images:**

__Women's Convention Proceedings__, Worcester. 1849, 1850 (Rare Books).

Guiding Questions:** What were the characteristics of the postbellum struggles women faced in social and civil rights? What were the goals and effects of the women's rights movement? letters by suffragettes newspaper articles on conventions convention reports Abigail Adams letter court case judgements, court records
 * __Taryn Ross__
 * Objectives:** Students will understand the growth of women's civil rights in England and France in the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will examine the growth of women's civil rights in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will understand the similarities and differences between the women's movements in Europe and the United States.
 * Primary Source Documents and Artifacts:**

Guiding Question:** What forces motivated four local women - Sarah Bagley, Harriet Robinson, Lydia Maria Child, and Margaret Fuller - to work for women’s rights in antebellum New England from the 1830’s to the 1860’s? 1. why women joined together to gain their civil rights; 2. what the costs of their struggles were; and 3. what the benefits were.
 * __Elaine Augot__
 * Objectives:** Students will understand:

//Lowell Offering// & //Voice of Industry// (Sarah Bagley) 1830's & 1840's Song lyrics- Protesting workers (Lowell 1836) Bloomerites in Lowell in 1851 (local news articles and London "Punch" July 4, 1851) //Loom & Spindle// & __Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement__ (1830's Harriet Robinson) //The Liberator// & //The Massachusetts Journal// (Lydia Maria Child) Juvenile Miscellany (magazine 1820's by Maria Francis) Massachusetts Journal (1830's David Lee Child & Maria Child) //The Liberator// (1830's articles by Maria Child) Over the River and Through the Woods (poem/song Maria Child) __Woman in the Nineteenth Century__ & //The New York Tribune// (Margaret Fuller) Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 National Women's Rights Convention (Worcester) 1850/51
 * Primary Source Documents and Artifacts:**