primary source archives
The National Archives are based out of Washington DC. This focuses on Modern America from 1890-1930 but it also focuses more specifically on women's suffrage and the establishment of the 19th amendment. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters engaged in civil disobedience to achieve changes in the US Constitution.
This resource contains more than 10 billion records throughout American history. It contains many written documents and images to analyze from. You can make collections of documents to be saved for later or you can create a movie trailer with the documents chosen.
The IIP provides American document outreach support to U.S. embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries worldwide. It engages readers on issues of US foreign policy and domestic documents, and images. It is also useful for timelines in regards to US voting rights.
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This archive source is also based in Washington DC. It is considered the largest library in the world that it contains millions of books, audio, photos, maps, etc. in its collection. It offers plenty of ideas and primary sources on the women’s suffrage movement, legislation, voting rights, and anti-suffrage arguments.
This Austin, TX resource center offers primary source documents that mostly involve Texas documents. Although it was established in 1973, it contains archived documents from before that. For example, one can find a lot of information about Texas native President Johnson especially documents and images related to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as he signed it.
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analysis tools
When students analyze and sequence documents, they will be able to understand why events happened in a particular order in a historical context. Students can customize their activity to make this happen, analyze a document the teacher chooses, and to make sure there is enough information for students to be able to sequence it.
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In order to create an activity that allows students to make matches between two documents, this is the tool to do just that. Anyone can search and add documents they would like to use for their activity. They can compile a list of saved documents and use them for the matching activity later.
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primary source lesson plans
The following are sample lesson plans that contain strategies for future classrooms:
This lesson plan provides background information on the events in Congress and the nation around the time the Voting Rights Act was debated.
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These activities enable students to explore Congress Creates the Bill of Rights, a mobile app for tablets and eBook from the Center for Legislative Archives.
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