Excerpt from New York Times Article: Suffrage Wins in Senate

At the time this article was written, the amendment had passed first in the ___________ and then in the Senate. It was then being sent to the _____________ for ratification.

• House; States

• United States; Constitution

• States; House

• House; President

Paragraph 4 begins with the sentence, “Leaders of the National Woman's Party announced tonight…” What does paragraph 4 describe?

• the schedule of state legislatures when special sessions are held

• the back-up plan the National Woman’s Party has prepared in the event the amendment does not get ratified by the states

• next steps to be taken for ratification of the amendment at the state level

• the tactics the leaders of the National Woman’s Party will use in their campaign to obtain ratification of the amendment

“To achieve this ratification it will be necessary to hold special sessions of some Legislatures which otherwise would not convene until after the Presidential election in 1920.”Another way to state this information would be:

• Some state legislatures will have to meet again, before they had planned, to ratify the amendment.

• State legislatures will probably not meet again to ratify the amendment until after the Presidential election in 1920.

• The ratification will be extremely difficult to achieve; so, the Women’s Party will have to hold special sessions to convince the Legislatures.

• To achieve ratification, it will be necessary to hold special sessions of some Legislatures which otherwise would never have considered the amendment.

"Leaders of the National Woman's Party announced tonight that they would at once embark upon a campaign to obtain ratification of the amendment by the necessary three-fourths of the States so that women might have the vote in the next Presidential election.”What does embark mean in this sentence?

• embark (verb): to board a vessel or aircraft

• embark (verb): to set out, to start

• embark (verb): to invest money in a business

• embark (verb): to involve someone in a business

What is the main idea of this excerpt from this New York Times article?

• The amendment giving women the right to vote has passed the Senate and now will go to the states for ratification.

• Women deserve the right to vote, as granted by the Constitution and their human rights.

• The National Woman’s Party predicts that women will have the vote by the next Presidential election in 1920.

• The House and Senate generally agree on passing amendments to the Constitution, as evidenced in the passage of this amendment.

The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.Suffragists had already gathered in the Senate galleries _________ the announcement of the vote’s outcome

• prior to

• during

• after

• initially