A Victory for All?: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

This resource is an Inquiry Pack to accompany the Suffrage Timeline on LegalTimelines.org, which explores the history of voting rights in the United States, from its early influences to constitutional amendments and landmark Supreme Court cases.

Built around primary sources from the Library of Congress and other collections, this Inquiry Pack facilitates a deep dive into an important aspect of the history of suffrage and voting rights in the United States.

Each Inquiry Pack includes a background reading, several primary sources (documents, articles, images), discussion questions about the sources, an inquiry question, and an inquiry extension question.

This pack includes the following components:

• Introduction: The Women’s Suffrage Movement
• Success in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
• Questioning Success
• Conflicting Interpretations of the Past
• Inquiry Question: To what degree was the ratification of the 19th Amendment a success for all women?
• Inquiry Extension Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following claim that “the [women’s suffrage] movement is alive and well in some ways?”
• Inquiry Question Graphic Organizer