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Stand Up for Your Rights
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/
Stand Up for Your Rights
This site covers three important issues, brought to life through individual stories. The issues include women's right to vote, explored through the stories of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; religious freedom, examined through the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan New England; and the battle for civil rights, told through the story of school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
An interview with Melba Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, tells how she felt as one of the first African American students to attend Little Rock's Central High. Kids can find out more about the many struggles as well as the personalities involved in the civil rights movement through games and quizzes that will pique their interest to find out more.
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Citizenship : What is the point of voting today?
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/citizenship/cit12/
Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 12: Why did women and some men have to struggle for the vote in Britain? What is the point of voting today?
Pupils learn about the key characteristics of government and the electoral system in Britain. They explore the principles of different electoral systems, and ideas about voting. They consider the consequences of disenfranchisement for excluded groups and for society as a whole. Pupils discuss and evaluate how effective democracy is in Britain today.
1. How can we start to think about power and exclusion?
2. Who could and could not vote in Britain in 1831?
3. Why did some men have the vote in 1831 and not others?
4. Why did women not have the vote in 1831?
5. Who was struggling for political change in the first half of the 19th century?
6. What has 19th century political history got to do with citizenship today?
7. Why did more people get the vote in the second half of the 19th century?
8. To what extent did ideas about women change during the second half of the 19th century?
9. Who was campaigning for votes for women? How did they campaign?
10. Why did women get the vote in 1918 and not before?
11. Why did women and some men have to struggle for the vote? What is the point of voting today?
12. What is the point of voting today?
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