Women's Suffrage Brainpop

A suffragist is a person who fights for:

• Gender equality

• Abolition

• Voting rights

• An end to all suffering

How are the abolition and women's suffrage movements connected?

• Both movements had the same leaders

• Many suffragists became abolitionists

• Both movements fought for women’s rights

• Some abolitionists became suffragists

Sojourner Truth’s speech highlighted the connection between:

• Strength and grit

• Men and women

• Race and gender

• Gender and age

The Seneca Falls conference was ridiculed by some people. What's the most likely reason?

• There was longstanding prejudice against people from upstate New York

• Women traditionally weren't used to having the same rights as men

• The participants' ideas were too complicated for most to understand

• Very few people actually showed up at the conference

What caused the split in the U.S. women's suffrage movement after the Civil War?

• Not all suffragists wanted women to have the right to vote

• Some suffragists wanted to extend the right to vote to illegal immigrants

• Some suffragists wanted to focus only on getting the vote, while others wanted more

• Some suffragists wanted to deny the vote to freed slaves

How did it benefit western territories to grant women suffrage?

• It gave politicians a voting advantage

• It eased the local suffragist protests

• It prompted unruly male settlers to leave

• It helped them qualify to join the union

Letter-writing campaigns and public marches are examples of what kind of protest?

• Suffrage protest

• Non-violent protest

• Angry protest

• Boycott

What convinced President Woodrow Wilson to back women’s suffrage?

• political march on Washington

• Hunger strikes

• Women’s war effort during World War I

• Fear of losing the 1912 presidential elections

The 19th Amendment said a person’s right to vote did not depend on their:

• age

• gender

• race

• wealth

Which of these factors contributed to the 19th-century women's suffrage movement?

• The development of new technologies, which made housework less demanding

• The invention of the automobile, which made it easier for women to travel to the polls

• Couples having more children, which increased the importance of women within the household

• Women being banned from the workforce, which gave them more time to devote to social causes