Oklahoma Social Studies USH.C.2.2.A
The Standard
- USH.C.2
- Analyze the social, economic, and political changes that occurred during the American Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age, and reform movements.
- USH.C.2.2
- Evaluate the efforts of major reform movements in addressing social issues.
Describe the Women’s Suffrage Movement, focusing on the leadership of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as strategies used to bring attention to the suffrage cause.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · USH.C.2.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked for women's voting rights. They describe how speeches, petitions, and public acts brought attention to the cause.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student connects Stanton to the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting and Anthony to her 1872 vote and arrest. They can explain why a petition or a public speech might persuade people to support voting rights.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think women gained the vote right after the Seneca Falls meeting. They may place Anthony at that meeting or assume all women could vote freely after 1920.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one action Stanton took and one Anthony took. Explain how a petition or speech could draw attention to women's voting rights.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed suffrage petition, a speech excerpt, and a newspaper headline; have them label each one's audience and purpose.
Ask students to write: Why might Stanton's 1848 declaration and Anthony's 1872 vote draw different kinds of attention?
Hand out event cards and name cards; students race to match Stanton with Seneca Falls and Anthony with her 1872 vote.
Have students draft a petition for a school change, then compare its audience and wording with a suffrage petition.
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- 8.C.10.4
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- 8.C.10.4.B
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