Women's Movement

Which one of these things is not mentioned as something that women weren't allowed to do in the Seneca Falls reading passage?

• speak in church

• raise children

• get a divorce

• enter into contracts

Which two women were mainly responsible for organizing the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

• Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lucretia Mott

Which of the following correctly identifies two well-known men who attended the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Frederick Garrison and William Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass

• Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison

Which of the following documents became the major achievement of the Seneca Falls Convention?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of the Rights of Women

• The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution

• The Declaration of Sentiments

Which of these best describes how many journalists felt about the convention?

• Newspapers reported that the convention was uneventful and boring.

• Journalists were shocked, saying it was unnatural for women to want equal rights.

• Every newspaper praised the event; no one had anything negative to say about it.

• There were no articles about it, because no one knew it was happening.

According to the Seneca Falls article, in the 1830s and 1840s, there were a few women who began to speak up for the rights of women.

• True

• False

The Seneca Falls Convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19, 1948.

• True

• False

The Seneca Falls Convention was held in the Wesleyan Baptist Chapel.

• True

• False

Most of the 1,000 people who attended the Seneca Falls Convention were women.

• True

• False

100 women signed the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention.

• True

• False