Learning Exercise
Anthony and Stanton and the Women's Rights Movement
This web site is based on the documentary film produced by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes for PBS. It describes the lives of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and their involvement in the Women's Rights Movement of the 19th century. The site has the additional resources of articles and essay, historical documents, biographies, suggested books, and links to related web sites.
Course: U.S. History
- Material:
- Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
- Date last modified:
- December 8, 2001
- Created by:
- William Paquette
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Exercise
Once the web site for Stanton and Anthony comes on the screen, Click on either
image of Stanton or Anthony (the same information appears regardless of the
image clicked). In the middle of the screen is a narrow column with three
divisions: Stanton and Anthony, Culture and Politics, Arguments and
Declarations.
There are twenty icons for each of the three mentioned categories: Stanton and
Anthony, Culture and Politics, Arguments and Declarations. Collect the
information for all sixty icons.
Using the information collected, write a ten-page paper explaining the
circumstances leading to Stanton and Anthony's participation in the women's
rights movement. Students will be required to provide analysis and evaluation
about the influences in both Stanton and Anthony's lives which led them to
become social revolutionaries.
image of Stanton or Anthony (the same information appears regardless of the
image clicked). In the middle of the screen is a narrow column with three
divisions: Stanton and Anthony, Culture and Politics, Arguments and
Declarations.
There are twenty icons for each of the three mentioned categories: Stanton and
Anthony, Culture and Politics, Arguments and Declarations. Collect the
information for all sixty icons.
Using the information collected, write a ten-page paper explaining the
circumstances leading to Stanton and Anthony's participation in the women's
rights movement. Students will be required to provide analysis and evaluation
about the influences in both Stanton and Anthony's lives which led them to
become social revolutionaries.
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Background in United States history before the Civil War.