Ohio Women Vote :100 Years of Change

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Ohio Women Vote: 100 Years of Change

August 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted many women the right to vote. This major victory was only the beginning for women’s activism. To commemorate this anniversary, the Ohio History Connection built an exhibit meant to travel the state throughout 2020. It is not currently possible for Ohioans to view this exhibit in person, so we invite you to view this exhibit in a new way.

Ohio Women Vote: 100 Years of Change commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and celebrates the century of women’s activism that followed. The exhibit poses ten questions (seen on the sidebar to your left) to historic and contemporary Ohio women in activism. Their answers help the viewer learn that the 19th Amendment was not the end of women’s activism, it was the beginning. Voting enabled women to further their education, pursue careers, change laws, create social service and cultural organizations, and run for office themselves.

We invite you to explore this exhibit from the comfort of your own home, and, if you've seen it before, explore it in new ways. Click the links througout to learn more about the featured images, view full length oral history interviews, or see related blog posts.

No force could ever stop the women you will see featured in this exhibit, so there's no way we could let anything stop their stories from reaching you. Enjoy!

http://resources.ohiohistory.org/omeka/exhibits/show/suffrage

Ohio Women Vote :100 Years of Change

Study and analyze newspaper article

Read the newspaper article, “Woman suffrage battle on; New York suffrage hearings” to complete the following activities. Use the Primary Source Analysis Worksheet to help guide your analysis.

Read speech from 1855 and analyze

Disappointment Is the Lot of Women 1855 By Lucy Stone

Take on the role of a museum curator

You are a museum curator! Your task is to create a list of resources that you are suggesting the museum include in an upcoming exhibit. Using the Significant Ohio Women Biographies list, chose an important figure in Ohio women’s history to study. Then, using the RAFT strategy, create an annotated bibliography of primary sources. You can use the Primary Source Analysis Worksheet to help you interpret your sources.

View and analyze cartoons and posters from the suffrage era

Consider the following images, posters, and cartoons about women’s suffrage. Analyze the images, words, and meanings. You can use the Primary Source Analysis Worksheet to help guide you. Then create your own political cartoon, poster, or flyer about women’s suffrage. Your creation should include at least 4 words and some illustration (one illustration of your own creation, or at least two images if you do not want to draw your own). Include a full paragraph description of your cartoon or poster.

Analyze political cartoon

Answer the questions below about the provided political cartoon. This is a political cartoon illustrating the adoption of an amendment to the Ohio Constitution for women's suffrage by the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1912. Ohio voters defeated the amendment. On June 16, 1919 Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote.

Analyze the impact of 19th century and early 20th century social movements

In your response you should: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least six documents. Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the 19th Amendment

Evaluate the effectiveness of the 19th Amendment in generating equality in the United States from 1920 to 1980.

How has the women's movement change or stayed the same since the suffrage movement

In your response you should: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible theses or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least six documents. Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

What does it mean to be a woman

Read and analyze various perspectives from women