Tincan’s Inland Northwest Memories Project

On November 8, 2010, Washington State will celebrate the centennial of women’s gaining the right to vote. Washington was the first state in the twentieth century and the fifth state in the Union to enact women’s suffrage preceding the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution by ten years.

For middle and high school history and social studies teachers

This professional development opportunity will prepare you to incorporate material on Washington’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial into your classroom. The workshop consists of six seminars, spread over a one-year period. Seminars will run from 10-5 each day. Each of the six seminars will be lead by a humanities scholar, and includes site visits, primary resource research and curriculum development strategies.

Explore four factors that underlay the movement toward suffrage in eastern Washington.

• Cultural Context
• Political Factors
• Economic Forces
• Role of Temperance Movement and Women’s Clubs
  

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This project is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH designated the Suffrage Centennial Workshop as a “We the People” project. The goal of the “We the People” initiative is the encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture through the support of projects that explore significant events and themes in our nation’s history and advance the knowledge of the principles that define America.