1. Lesson 2: The Women’s Rights Movement
Unit 5: Equality & Power
Lesson 2: The Women’s Rights Movement

2. Review What was the main idea of Hobbes “social contract”.
According to John Locke, what are the natural rights of man?
How did John Locke influence Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence?
How did Montesquieu influence the Founding Fathers?
Beccaria?
Voltaire?
What are the impacts of the Enlightenment?
How did the Enlightenment influence the US Constitution.
How does knowing about the Enlightenment help us understand equality?

3. Essential Question
How does the fight for Women’s Rights demonstrate the concept of equality?

4. Activation What does the word “suffrage” mean?
Why is suffrage so important to equality?

5. A timeline of the Early Women’s Rights Movement
List what you believe to be the 5 most important dates in regard to the Women’s Rights Movement.

6. Assessment Prompt 1
Of the five dates that you chose, which do you believe to be the most significant? Explain your answer in one sentence.

7. Activity
Women’s Wrongs by Jane Elizabeth Jones

8. Assessment Prompt 2
1’s
Why does Jones Not like the term Women’s Rights?
According to Jones, what is the basis of the “contest” being fought for the enslaved African Americans?
2’s
Who does Jones blame for the “present degraded condition of women”?
What argument does Jones make to explain why many women do not believe they are denied equal rights?

9. Women’s Rights

10. Assessment Prompt 3
Word Splash

11. Assignment

12. Journal Pros/cons of suffrage (letters from the editors)
Suffrage Respond to the following prompt “If women were given the right to vote then……”
How does knowing about women’s suffrage help us understand the concept of equality?