Women's Right to Vote

Based on the article, which inference can the reader make about women’s voting rights before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed?

• Each state determined the voting rights of its women.

• In the North and the South, all women had voting rights.

• Women never had voting rights anywhere in the nation.

• Women had voting rights if they met certain conditions.

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Which detail from the article best supports the answer to Question 1?

• “Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and family matters.”

• “If women were citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that citizens had the right to vote, why couldn’t women vote?”

• “A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union.”

• “In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, several states in the West extended voting rights to women.”

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Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that some men supported the women’s suffrage movement?

• Voting rights had been extended to most white men by the early 1800s.”

• “Some men argued that women should only concern themselves with household and family matters.”

• “About forty men also attended the convention.”

• However, the group split up due to disagreements concerning the Fifteenth Amendment.”

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Which of these is the central idea of paragraph 12?

• Women were helpful to America during World War I, which broke out in 1914.

• Because of World War I, many Americans changed their opinions about women’s roles.

• After World War I, American women gained the right to vote with an amendment in 1920.

• By the end of World War I, the major political parties in America agreed on women’s suffrage.

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Which important idea connects paragraph 5 and paragraph 6?

• he cooperation between Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe

• he important social changes that resulted from the Civil War

• he partnership of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony

• the disagreement over the rights in the Fifteenth Amendment

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Which of the following sentences would NOT be in a summary about how the Fifteenth Amendment divided members of the suffrage movement?

• Minor and Woodhull attempted to use the right of citzenship to all people born in the United States was a way to secure women’s right to vote.

• Some women felt the Fifteenth Amendment should extend voting rights to all citizens, not just African American men.

• Some women felt the Fifteenth Amendment should extend voting rights to all citizens, not just African American men.

• After the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, the Fifteenth Amendment was proposed to give African American men the right to vote.

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How does the author help the reader understand the connection between the women’s suffrage movement and the abolitionist movement?

• The author explains how one movement led to the other.

• The author describes the similarities between the the Civil War and the suffrage movement.

• The author explains that both groups had similar goals.

• The author provides examples of abolitionists who did not support women’s right to vote.

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