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• Discuss the lives and accomplishments of important Virginia women from 1870 to 1920. How did their
influence affect the lives of women in that era and in the future?
• Discuss the woman's suffrage movement. Emphasize how the right to vote represents social equality.
How did their work influence the lives of other women?
• Research influential Virginia women from the era and use creative writing skills to craft speeches
honoring these women. Design a monument for a Virginia heroine.
• Compare the struggle to gain the right to vote for women and minorities in America with other countries.
Create comparative charts.
• Discuss a hypothetical situation in which the class is located in a town that has just received notice that
a railroad will be built there. Assign various roles to the students: store and shop owners, hotel manager-owner,
farmers, and town mayor.
How will each person or group be affected?
What will happen to the farmers' land?
How will the new railroad benefit the town?
What negative influences could occur?
In what ways will the lives of the people be changed?
With science classes, research how the construction of railroads, highways, and
mining can harm the environment. In what ways can the environment be protected?
Conclude this discussion by making a diagram of the town before and after the railroad.
• For discussion: Why did people in the rural areas of the New South move to the city?
• For discussion: In what ways did the streetcar change the way people lived?
• Compare the streetcar to previous modes of transportation.
• Compare the boycott of 1904 with Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956.
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