Women's Rights

Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848?

• Dallas, Texas

• Seneca Falls, New York

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Nashville, Tennessee

___________________________ wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Alice Paul

• Michelle Obama

The first state constitution in California extends __________ rights to women in 1849.

• Voting

• Banking

• Property

• Child Custody

At a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, __________________, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech, "Ain't I a woman?"

• Betsy Ross

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Alice Paul

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of _________________. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”

• The Suffragette Gazette

• The Revolution

• Women's Rights Journal

• Ain't I a Woman Too

Many women were fined and arrested for attempting to vote.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The western states were the first to give women the right to vote.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first __________ elected to the House of Representatives in 1916.

• African-American Male

• Woman

• African-American Woman

• Hispanic Woman

____________ was the leader of the National Woman’s Party. She was put in solitary confinement in the mental ward of the prison as a way to “break” her will. She went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat until women gain the right to vote. The guards try to force feed her to keep her alive.

• Alice Paul

• Lucy Burns

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Hillary Clinton

The Senate finally passes the ____ Amendment and the ratification process begins. On August 26, 1920 - Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American Women win full voting rights.

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

• 21st

• 22nd