Fight for Women's Rights lesson check

What was one difference between women in rural areas and in cities in the mid- to late-1800s?

• Women in rural areas had few rights while women in cities were able to vote.

• Women in rural areas could work on farms or in factories while women in cities usually mended clothes.

• Women in rural areas usually worked on the farm while women in cities only worked if the family was very poor.

• Women in rural areas were second-class citizens while women in cities were considered equal with their husbands.

How did new inventions affect women’s roles in society and the economy?

• Women were expected to create new innovations to keep the economy growing.

• The need for more income forced women into jobs that did not pay well.

• The few jobs that women held disappeared with new inventions and innovations.

• More women worked because families wanted to afford automobiles and better homes.

Which of these sentences shows how women had to work for change that would improve their home lives as well as their standing in society?

• Many women also worked to end slavery.

• In the 1800s, many jobs were closed to women.

• Many women (including Susan B. Anthony) joined the temperance movement.

• Suffrage is the right to vote, and people who worked for women’s suffrage were called suffragists.

Which region of the United States began passing women’s suffrage laws first?

• the West

• the South

• the Northeast

• the Southwest

Why was the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment significant?

• It meant that women would be able to make more money.

• It allowed women to run for elected office and have more input.

• It stated that women could not be discriminated against in any way.

• It gave women a voice in their own government and more equality with men.