Woman Suffrage and World War I DBQuest | Handout p.1 Document GuiDe p.1 6 women picKets ARe sent to JAil (newspApeR ARticle) They Prefer Thirty Days in Workhouse to Paying $25 Fines WASHINGTON, Aug. I8. Students will learn how World War I impacted the woman suffrage movement. Despite the state victories, general support for a federal amendment was not gaining enough traction. The people? Sources will show how suffragists promoted woman suffrage as a war measure, how women’s roles expanded during the war and how suffragists used the stated purpose for fighting the war— fighting for democracy— to fight for this same right at home. DBQuest introduces students to major questions in civics and history. World war 1 and women's suffrage. Each document challenges students to dig into the text itself and find the relevant information through document–based supporting questions. Democracy cannot exist where not everyone has equal rights. Each document challenges students to dig into the text itself and find the relevant information through document–based supporting questions. Each of the three primary sources reveal a new perspective on the Nashville Sit-In Movement of 1960, and lead to a deeper understanding of what it means to work for change.Students will hear from a local businessman, student activist, and view newspaper coverage of the event.President Jefferson usually gets the credit for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of the young nation. Part background, part persuasion, Washington's cover letter provides a behind-the-scenes look at how a new government came to be designed.
As with any important document, the Constitution was delivered with a letter of introduction. To further their cause, American women took lessons from women elsewhere, who argued for universal suffrage as a war measure. Thus exclaimed one of the signs protesters held in front of the White House gates in February 1917. Thirty days in the workhouse at Occoquan, Va., was the sentence handed out to-day to the six White House pickets who milatary draft. This DBQuest will walk you through primary sources that show the give and take between the two branches. What makes a movement successful? But in the trying circumstances of World War I, proponents found a new rallying cry. But this ignores one important actor, the U.S. Congress.
STUDY. One of the Congress’s “Principles of a Permanent Peace” was the Enfranchisement of Women: “Since the combined influence of the women of all countries is one of the strongest forces for the prevention of war…this International Congress of Women demands their political enfranchisement.” world war1. Sources will show how suffragists promoted woman suffrage as a war measure, how women’s roles expanded during the war and how suffragists used the stated purpose for fighting the war— fighting for democracy— to fight for this same right at home. DBQuest introduces students to major questions in civics and history. Discuss the state of democracy and women's suffrage during World War I with class discussions, debates, and primary source analysis, in order for class members to connect with the time period accurately.