How Did Women Use Their Voices To Influence the Start of a New Country?
Learning Objectives
- Describe multiple ways that women influenced the early United States
- Analyze primary and secondary sources for main ideas and details
- Compare individuals and perspectives from the same historical period
- Support claims with evidence from primary and secondary sources to answer the question: “How did women use their voices to influence the start of a new country?"
Overview
Historians compare. In this lesson, students will compare ways in which women used their voices. They will learn how women used letters, books, plays, poems, and court cases to fight for their rights and encourage freedom. Students will gather evidence, develop a claim, and answer the mystery question: “How did women use their voices to influence the start of a new country?”
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Where this Mystery fits in this Private i History Detectives Unit:
How Did Women Influence the American Revolutionary War?