"The Fight for the Right to Vote" Reading Practice Standards: RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.3

Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that some men supported the women's suffrage movement?

• "Voting rights had been extended to most white men by the early 1800s."

• "Some men argued that women should only concern themselves with household and family matters."

• "About forty men also attended the convention."

• "However, the group split up due to disagreements concerning the Fifteenth Amendment."

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

Which important idea connects paragraph 5 and paragraph 6?

• the cooperation between Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe

• the important social changes that resulted from the Civil War

• the partnership of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony

• the disagreement over the rights in the Fifteenth Amendment

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

Which of these is the central idea of 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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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

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.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

Which detail from the article best supports the inference or fact that before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, each state determined the voting rights of its women?

• "Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and family matters."

• "If women were citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that citizens had the right to vote, why couldn't women vote?"

• "A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union."

• "In the late nineteenth century and twentieth century, several states in the West extended voting rights to women."

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1