Women's Movement Quiz

What important right did women gain in 1920?

• They gained the right to own property.

• They gained the right to marry.

• They gained the right to attend school.

• They gained the right to vote.

What did the Milwaukee College of Women train students for?

• marriage, motherhood, and housekeeping

• the Christian ministry

• exercising their right to vote

• history, mathematics, and physics

Many reformers in the women’s movement were ____.

• Quakers

• Mormons

• divorced

• anti-abolitionists

What was a main demand of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions?

• Men should not be allowed to attend future conventions.

• Enslaved African Americans should be freed.

• Discrimination against women should be ended.

• Women should be required to marry.

In 1848 the first women's rights convention was held in ____.

• London

• Seneca Falls, New York

• Philadelphia

• Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Blackwell broke an important barrier for women when she ____.

• divorced her husband

• started a college

• became a doctor

• argued for suffrage

Mary Lyon modeled her school, ____, on Amherst College.

• Troy Female Seminary vote

• Geneva College

• Oberlin College

• Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

The women’s movement helped get laws passed that allowed ____.

• married women to own property

• women to become teachers

• single women to depend on men for support

• mothers to abandon their children after a divorce

Susan B. Anthony believed that ____.

• men and women should be educated together

• the temperance movement was a mistake

• women should only be homemakers

• girls needed only a high school education

Which reformer at the Seneca Falls Convention was uncomfortable with the idea of suffrage for women?

• Frederick Douglass

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony