Expanding the 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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.