The Right to Vote: A History of U.S. Suffrage Week 2

Who were the first women to vote on the North American continent (as far as we have record)?

• Iroquois women

• New Jersey women

• Women on the Mayflower

• Black women who owned property

Where did the pilgrims elect their first governor?

• On the Mayflower

• In Plymouth Colony

• In England

• In New Jersey

What happened to suffrage after the U.S. revolution?

• Universal suffrage was granted

• More women got the right to vote

• More black people got the right to vote

• More white men got the right to vote

What decision was made in Dred Scot v. Sandford

• Women were given the right to vote

• Black men were granted citizenship

• Native American men were granted citizenship

• Black men were denied citizenship

Who was Dred Scott?

• A freeholder

• A supreme court justice

• A governor in Plymouth Colony

• A slave

What event caused the North Carolina legislature to disenfranchise free black men in 1835?

• The New Jersey "Government of Petticoats"

• The U.S. Civil War

• Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

• The Dred Scott Decision

The "Government of Petticoats" was a mockery of what historical event?

• Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

• The Dred Scott case

• Women in New Jersey having suffrage in 1776

• The Indian Citizenship Act

What did the U.S. Constitution say about who could vote in the very beginning?

• It excluded women

• It excluded African Americans

• It excluded Native Americans

• It didn't really say much at all about who could and could not vote.

Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis' dissent in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) emphasized that free African Americans ___________________ at the time the Constitution was ratified.

• had been considered citizens

• had not been considered citizens

• had been allowed to vote

• had not been allowed to vote

In the early 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to work on voter registration campaigns in ____________.

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Alabama

• Arkansas