Susan B Anthony quiz

Susan B Anthony is known for being part of what movement?

• Prison reform

• Education reform

• Women's suffrage

• Labor movement

What inspired Susan B Anthony and her siblings to fight for the rights of women and slaves?

• The Quaker belief that everyone was equal under God

• Being raised in a community where women were in charge

• Training as teachers for their community

• The Shaker belief that God loves everyone equally

Listening to her father's friends William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass inspired Susan to do what?

• Become a religious rights activist and spread the word of God

• Become a traveling teacher to bring education to impoverished communities

• Become an activist for the abolition of slavery

• Donate money to their political causes

What event marked the beginning of the suffrage movement?

• The first protest of inequality regarding women's rights

• The first Women’s Rights Convention in the United States

• The arrest of Elizabeth Cady Stanton for speaking about women's voting rights

• The creation of The Revolution, a newspaper advocating for women's suffrage

Most people thought it was proper for women to give speeches in public.

• True

• False

What organization did Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton co-found as part of their movement?

• The Women's Rights Association

• The Equal Rights Association

• The American Women's Rights Association

• The American Equal Rights Association

Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments, which gave voting rights to who?

• African American men

• Women whose husbands would allow them to vote

• Freed slaves

• Immigrants

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton did what that led them to split from other suffragists?

• Had an argument at a women's voting rally that made them unpopular

• Supported a female candidate in the mayoral race or a morally corrupt township

• Opposed the 14th and 15th amendments because they didn't include the right to vote for women

• Publicized unpopular ideas about women's voting rights

Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association for what specific purpose?

• To oppose the National Slaves Suffrage Association

• To push for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote

• To bring the women's suffrage party back together

• To create a power base for their movement

Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before what event?

• The first woman was elected to a public office

• The two largest suffrage associations merged into one, called the National American Women’s Suffrage Association

• Women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment

• The “Declaration of Rights” was written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage