7.5 Quick Check

What was significant about Seneca Falls for the women’s rights movement?

• It was the first time women were allowed to vote in a local election.

• It was where the first women's trade union met.

• It was where women publicly demanded equal rights.

• It was the site of the first college willing to admit women.

What caused the Women's Rights Movement in the 1800's?

• Women wanted a higher education.

• Women began to demand equal rights as citizens.

• Women wanted to run for public office.

• Women began to demand the rights to a divorce.

What is the importance of the 19th Amendment?

• Gave women freedom of speech.

• Gave African American men the right to vote.

• Gave citizens the right to bare arms.

• Gave women the right to vote.

What was the Seneca Falls Convention manifesto?

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Declaration of Rights Citizens

What was an effect of the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Launched the Women's Rights Movement.

• Freed all of the slaves in the south.

• Gave birth to the idea of individualism.

• Started the Second Great Awakening.

____ not only fought for women's rights, but also ran a station on the Underground Railroad.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Jane Hunt

• Martha Coffin Wright

What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Women stood up in opposition to slavery in the United States.

• Fredrick Douglas gave a speech convincing citizens to stand up for slaves in the south.

• Women fought for social, civil, and religious rights.

• Men fought for the right of women in society.

What did the Declaration of Sentiments describe?

• The grievances and demands of the women.

• The charges against the crown declared by the American colonists.

• The ideas and beliefs of the free African Americans.

• The laws prohibiting child labor in factories.

What was the Second Great Awakening?

• A economic movement in the 1600's.

• A political movement in the 1700's.

• A religious movement in the 1800's.

• A social movement in the 1900's.