Lesson 3 The Women on Money

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Lesson 3 - The Women on Money

• Susan B. Anthony
• Sacagawea
• Helen Keller

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Have any women been on money before Susan B.
Anthony?

• MARTHA WASHINGTONS portrait appeared on the face
  of the 1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891,
  and the Back of the 1 Silver Certificate of
  1896.

• After POCAHONTAS in the early 1900s, no woman
  had been on currency until the Susan B. Anthony
  silver dollar.

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What do we know about women during Susan B.
Anthonys time?

• They worked as caretakers, house-workers,
  homemakers.
• They could not vote.
• They had few chances for an education.
• Many schools were male-only

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What did members of the suffrage movement believe?

• All men and women are created equal.
• Women were deprived of basic rights.
• Denied the right to vote
• Denied educational opportunities,
  especially higher education
• Denied equal opportunities in business
• Women were limited in the right to own property.

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What do we know about Susan B. Anthony -
suffragist?

• With her friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she led
  the womens suffrage movement.
• She supported womens right to vote.
• She was arrested for her work.

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What do we know about the Susan
B. Anthony silver dollar?

• Issued 1979 1981
• Called Suzy Bucks
• 11 edges around the circle
• It will last 30 years a paper 1.00
  bill lasts only 18 22 months.

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The Women on Money

• How have the right to life, liberty, pursuit of
  happiness, and equality under law changed from
  Pocahontas and Sacagaweas time
• through Susan B. Anthonys time?
• through Helen Kellers time?
• through today?
• Which minority group(s) are better off today than
  when these people lived? Which are not?