Teacher Resources
LINKS USED IN WEBQUEST:
Constitutional Rights Foundation- "Race and Voting in the Segregated South"
http://www.crf-usa.org/brown50th/race_voting.htm
Scholastic - Women's Suffrage Home Page, which links to the webpages needed to complete the lessons: history of women's suffrage, when did women vote?, Effie Hobby's story, and quiz.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/index.htm
Video clip on YouTube in which women were asked to sign a petition to "end women's suffrage." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE
History of Voting Rights Timeline
http://www.flaglerelections.com/kids/history.htm
WikiHow gives tps on how to win elections and how to vote. http://www.wikihow.com/Win-a-Student-Council-Election
LINKS KIDS CAN USE TO DEVELOP FURTHER KNOWLEDGE AND INTERESTS:
African Americans Rights
This web page provides not only history about the restrictions on African Americans, but also provides an example of what an Alabama literacy test looked like and how certain states would try and intimidate the African Americans from voting such as the intense voter application form.
http://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm
Web page that states what the amendments and articles are, but more specifically, view amendment 13, 14, and 15 and relate back to African American rights.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Definition of the 3/5 Compromise:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lara276/pptschedule/tsld025.htm
This is a pamphlet that was given to African Americans on how to vote:
http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbaapc&fileName=33200/rbaapc33200.db&recNum=0
Women's Rights
School House Rock song lyrics for "Sufferin' till suffrage."
http://www.postdiluvian.org/~gilly/Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/history/suffrage.html
This may be purchased with Amazon, eBay, and other internet companies.
Web page that states what the amendments and articles are, but more
specifically, view the 19th amendment.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Women in Kentucky provides wonderful sounds (recordings of suffragist) and images from the women's suffrage movement.
http://www.womeninkentucky.com/reform.html
Spartacus.school.net provides great historical background on the women's suffrage movement, as well as the people who took action.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsuffrage.htm
Elections
Kids Voting USA http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/page9623.cfm
Wikihow.com shows children the step they should go through before, during, and after casting a vote.
http://www.wikihow.com/Vote
Great information on the background of gerrymandering
http://www.fairvote.org/redistricting/gerrymandering.htm