Womens Rights and How They Changed Over Time

Welcome: The development of equal rights in the United States.

Description: This webquest will help students understand the very little ammount of rights women had, what they did to change it, and how they changed overall.

Grade level: 7th grade

Curriculum: Social Studies

Key Words: Womens rights, rights movement, US history

Author: Kiley Bednarczyk

By researching the rights of women and men over time, people will get a better understanding of how much America has changed, and how big of a problem it really was for women in the 1840s were it all started.

Students will be researching the changes in womens rights overtime in America. 

Students will learn the differences between men and womens rights in the United States, and also how it use to be, or still is, a problem that women face today. 

Independantly, students will use the links, on the following page, and answer the questions provided. While you are researching, be thinking about how things are developing and changing as time is going by. Also, the steps women had to make to get what they wanted.

Lets get started!

Womens Rights In America: click here to answer the following questions..

1) When did the Womens Rights Movement begin?

2) Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott call the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, and what were they trying to accomplish?

3) Why did the National Womens Rights convention stop, and what did women fight for during that time instead?

Womens Rights In America: click here to answer the following questions..

1) What big thing happened just before Susan B. Anthony started the Equal Rights Association, working for universal suffrage?

2) What did women attempt to do in 1868, and did they suceed?

3) What big events happened between 1870-1872 and how do you think they affected the trail to womens rights, in both positive and negative ways?

Womens Rights In America: click here to answer the following questions..

1) What was the Declaration of Sentiments, and what was it supporting?

2) Who did white women begin to team up with when the 15th amendment was pruposed, and why?

3) What were the two factions of womens suffrage groups, and what made them different from one another?

Womens Rights In America: click here to answer the following questions..

1) What was the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote, and what year was it?

2) What was the WTUL advocating for?

3) What two big things happened for women in 1920, and how do you think it differs from how things were in 1848?

Womens Rights In America: click here to answer the following questions..

1) Who do you think had the biggest influence on the Womens Rights Movement, and what did they do to make you think this?

2) Baised on the text, do you think these women were well educated or do you think they just wanted to vote just so they could?

3) What was the Declaration of Sentiments, and who signed it?

Make sure that you are answering questions in complete sentences, and DO NOT COPY DIRECTLY FROM WEBITES. Come up with your own ideas and your own thoughts, or put direct quotes and explain.

Now that you have finished this webquest you can have a better understanding of what our country has been through and how things use to be much, much different than they are now. You can look back at this and compare it to the world you know now, and it may interest you to pick out the differences. 

I hope you enjoyed this webquest!