Women's Suffrage

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

• own a firearm
• vote in political elections
• practice your religion
• free speech

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 crafted a document that was very similar to the __________________.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Halifax Resolves
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation

Which group strongly supported the Women's Suffrage Movement?

• Ku Klux Klan
• Abolitionists
• Anti-Suffrage Society
• Regulators

Which person below was the most important figure in the Women's Suffrage  Movement?

• Penelope Barker
• Susan B. Anthony
• Dolley Madison
• Harriett Tubman

Woodrow Wilson was the head of the ______________ branch when the 19th Amendment was ratified.

• Legislative
• Executive
• Judicial

Which international conflict actually helped the Women's Suffrage Movement?

• The American Civil War
• World War I
• The French and Indian War
• The Revolutionary War

According to this map, Wyoming (WY) was the state to give women _________________.

• Presidential Suffrage
• Local School Elections
• Full Suffrage
• Municipal Suffrage

Those opposed to women suffrage believed that women were childlike and incapable of independent thought.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Which Constitutional Amendment granted women suffrage?

• 14th
• 15th
• 18th
• 19th

It took women a long time to get voting rights for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

• The leaders in the Women Suffrage Movement used overly emotional arguments.
• The Civil War and the 14th and 15th Amendments that followed interrupted the movement.
• Many Americans felt that giving women the right to vote would be harmful to the existing social and political structures.
• Many organizations and competing strategies distracted the focus.