Rights for Women

Rights for Women

Multiple Choice

Read the quote from the letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams. Then, answer the question.

What is Abigail asking for in this quote?

• She wants women to have unlimited power in the new legal code.

• She wants husbands to have authority over wives.

• She wants the new laws to give less power to husbands and more to women.

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements describes the idea of True Womanhood?

• Women were encouraged to work outside the home so that they could help support their families.

• Women were supposed to take jobs outside the home, but they were also told to work hard at home to take care of their families.

• Women played an important role inside the home, but they were discouraged from getting involved in public life outside the home.

Multiple Choice

How were married women and unmarried women treated differently under the law?

• Unmarried women had fewer property rights than married women.

• Married women gave up many of their property rights to their husbands.

• Married women were allowed to serve on juries, but unmarried women were not.

Open Ended

What is this political cartoon trying to get the public to do?

Multiple Choice

Why did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decide to organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

• During an antislavery convention, women activists were prevented from speaking, which made them focus on women’s rights.

• The two women saw how effective women organizers were in churches and other religious institutions and wanted to build on that.

• They wanted women to become leaders of a movement because men led the abolitionist and temperance movements.

• Because their involvement in other social movements had failed, they wanted to start something they thought could succeed.

Multiple Choice

The Declaration of Sentiments helped the women’s movement by demanding

• voting rights for women.

• safe conditions for women workers.

• the right of women to organize protests.

• the right of women to become teachers.

Multiple Choice

Read the conclusion from the Declaration of Sentiments. Then, answer the question.

What is Elizabeth Cady Stanton demanding?

• She wants women to become US citizens.

• She wants women to have special privileges.

• She wants women to have all the rights they are due as US citizens.

Multiple Choice

Why was the Seneca Falls Convention important?

• It received a great deal of positive publicity in the newspapers.

• Women gained the right to vote as a result of the convention.

• It helped inspire the creation of the women’s rights movement in America.

• It led to immediate changes in the unfair laws that limited women’s rights.