The Fight for the Right to Vote

"The Fight for the Right to Vote"

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Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First answer Part A. Then answer Part B.

Part A

Based on the article, which inference can the reader make about women’s voting rights

before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed?

• Each state determined the voting rights of its women.

• 
  In the North and the South, all women had voting rights.

• Women never had voting rights anywhere in the nation.

• Women had voting rights if they met certain conditions.

  
  

Multiple Choice

Part B

Which detail from the article best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and

  family matters.” (paragraph 2)

• “If women were citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that citizens had the right

  to vote, why couldn’t women vote?” (paragraph 9)

• “A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming

  entered the Union.” (paragraph 10)

• “In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, several states in the West

  extended voting rights to women.” (paragraph 11)

Multiple Choice

This question has two parts. First answer Part A. Then answer Part B.

Part A

Which central idea emerges from paragraph 12?

• Women were helpful to America during World War I, which broke out in 1914.

  
  

• 
  Because of World War I, many Americans changed their opinions about women’s roles.

• 
  After World War I, American women gained the right to vote with an amendment

  in 1920.

• By the end of World War I, the major political parties in America agreed on

  women’s suffrage.

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Part B

Which detail from paragraph 12 best supports the correct answer to Part A?

• “when World War I broke out in 1914”

• 
  “Some women worked as nurses”

• 
  “once women had proven that they were equal to men”

• “By the time the war was over in 1918”

Dropdown

Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence. Some members of the women's suffrage movement believed that a new amendment should give the right to vote to​ ​

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​citizens.

Dropdown

Choose the word or phrase that completes the sentence. Other members reasoned that one

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got the right to vote, it would be easier for women to get it, too.

Match

Match the four events to show the chronology of women’s fight for the right

to vote.

• First,

• Forty years later,

• Soon after that,

• Finally,

Stanton and Mott organized a convention

Wyoming gave females the right to vote

several countries gave voting rights

to..

the Nineteenth Amendment was accepted.

• 
  Stanton and Mott organized a convention

• Wyoming gave females the right to vote

• several countries gave voting rights

  to..

• the Nineteenth Amendment was accepted.

Categorize

Options (4)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

and Lucretia Mott

organized the first

convention for women’s

rights in Seneca

African Americans

were granted the right

to vote.

Women tried to use the

14

th

Amendment to

grant women the right

to vote.

Women’s participation in

World War I began to

change public opinion.

Organize these options into the right categories

The Suffrage Movement Starts

The Great Divide

The Continued Struggle

Winning the Vote

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Multiple Choice

Which sentence best expresses a central idea in “One Survivor’s Story?”  (R.I.8.2)

• During Hurricane Katrina, the Thorntons find refuge in the “Superdome” but are criticized for their inability to assist the SMG employees.

• Doug Thornton has found himself unable to cope with the stress of seeing such a terrible, natural disaster.

• Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Thorntons scramble to get to safety in New Orleans and eventually witness one of the worst disasters in the city’s history.

• Doug Thornton describes the stress of getting to safe place, during Hurricane Katrina, and explains the part FEMA played in much of the disaster.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best advances the central idea?  (R.I.8.2)

• As a professional man, the Doug Thornton had been through many hurricanes.

• There were over 13,000 people in the Superdome, and the staff allowed people to work

             around providing exercises of some sort.

• There were many fatalities in the city; worse than that, some people ended up lying next

             to people who were trying to save their own lives.

• The New Orleans mayor calls the Doug Thornton with a prediction of an unprecedented catastrophe.

Multiple Choice

The author implies that the hurricane was the most devastating that New Orleans had ever seen in its history. How does the author advance this central idea over the course of the passage? (R.I.8.2)

• by describing the events leading up to Hurricane Katrina in detail

• by explaining the recovery efforts of authorities

• by explaining the effects the hurricane had on the citizens and human rights leaders

• by describing the impact the hurricane had on the Superdome

Multiple Choice

Which of the following details contributes to the central idea of the passage?

• “By Sunday morning at 10 a.m., the Thorntons headed together to the Superdome and the line to get in was already a quarter-mile long.”

• .   “The skies darkened, and the wind started to pick up. The smell of the air became humid, tropical.”

• .  “Thornton and Mouton were walking away from the meeting when they heard a loud bang.”

• “Water poured onto the field. Hurricane Katrina had intruded on the last safe place.”