Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.7

SS24.US1.7 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.US1.7a

  Summarize the contributions of women reformers in the early to mid-nineteenth century who sought to expand political and educational opportunities for women.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students describe the expectation that women focus on home and family. They explain how women used reform movements to speak publicly, organize, and seek voting rights and schooling.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain how Lucretia Mott's abolition work and her role at Seneca Falls gave women a public voice. They can show how Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke expanded women's schooling and challenged limits on their roles.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may assume women who spoke at conventions could also vote in the 1840s. They may overlook the added barriers Black women faced or assume reformers rejected family life altogether.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: How did the Seneca Falls convention and Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke challenge expected roles for women? Give one demand or result from each.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards showing home duties, Mott's abolition speeches, Mount Holyoke, and Seneca Falls; have them sort expected roles from challenged roles.

2. 02

   Ask, "Did Mary Lyon's college or the Seneca Falls vote demand challenge women's assigned roles more directly?" Require two facts.

3. 03

   Play a three-card match game: pair Mott, Lyon, and Truth with abolition organizing, Mount Holyoke, and an 1851 women's rights speech.

4. 04

   Show a student council election flyer; have students compare candidates' access to leadership with women's political limits in 1848.

• SS24.US2.2b

  Describe the changing roles and rights of women in the United States that resulted from their contributions to World War I and ratification of the Nineteenth Am...

• SS24.US2.14b

  Evaluate the social and political significance of the women’s rights movement from the 1960s to the 1980s on the lives of women in the United States.

• SS24.6.11c

  Assess the arguments made by groups and individuals seeking greater inclusion and advancement of fundamental values in the late 1700s, including women and Black...

• SS24.US1.18d

  Analyze the roles and differing viewpoints of female reformers and women’s organizations in guiding the women’s suffrage and temperance movements.