National Anti-Suffrage Association

National Anti-Suffrage Association

Overview

Students analyze primary sources to investigate creator purpose and arguments against woman suffrage. After, students explore a current suffrage issue, such as felon voting rights or lowering the voting age to 16, and create an image to convince viewers to support or oppose the issue they investigated.

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Grade

Middle School

Subjects

Civics, Social Studies

Length

60 minutes

Topics

felon voting rights, guided primary source analysis, lowering voting age, suffrage, women suffrage, youth voting

Author

Primary Source Nexus

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