Category: Social Movements & Services, Civic & political activity, Temperance
Item 11511
Rev. Samuel F. Pearson, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 135772
Announcement for The Reformed Rumseller: Mr. Murphy, Wiscasset, 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1872 Location: Wiscasset Media: ink on paper
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Maine Women's Causes and Influence before 1920
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to the women of Maine between the end of the Revolutionary War through the national vote for women’s suffrage in 1920. Students will discuss issues including war relief (Civil War and World War I), suffrage, abolition, and temperance, and how the women of Maine mobilized for or in some cases helped to lead these movements.