Women's Rights Suffrage

Who were "suffragists"?

• men who prevented women from voting

• women who helped in American war efforts

• women who organized and fought for the right to vote

• women who ran for political office

What does the text describe?

• the presidency and leadership of Woodrow Wilson

• a sequence of events leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment

• the causes and effects of World War I

• people who were against the women's suffrage movement

Read the following sentences from the text.

"In 1913, on the day that President Woodrow Wilson became the president of the United States, women and men held a huge parade in front of his new home, the White House, to rally for women's right to vote in the United States. Some women were arrested and went to jail. Some were even beaten in jail. This got many citizens angry, and many men and women began to support the suffragists' cause."

Which conclusion does this information support?

• The fight for suffrage was difficult.

• The fight for suffrage was ineffective.

• The fight for suffrage was easy.

• The fight for suffrage did not get national attention.

Why did the suffragists go on hunger strikes and do other things to get public attention?

• to discourage people from supporting women's right to vote

• to get more people to support women's right to vote

• to show that women are physically strong

• to help more women realize they can be politically active

What is the main idea of the text?

• In 1848, Stanton and Lucretia Mott created the Seneca Falls Convention, where 240 women andmen met to make a plan of action to fight for new rights for women.

• During World War I, American women did many of the jobs that men could not do because men were away from home, fighting in the war.

• Suffragists fought hard to increase support for women's right to vote by organizing, holding parades,and going on hunger strikes.

• Before the 19th Amendment was passed, many states had already given women the right to vote,and also the right to hold political positions

Read the following sentences from the text.

"Many other women's groups joined them, and eventually these groups established a new organization, 'The National Woman Suffrage Association.' These women fought hard to have Congress and the states pass an amendment to the United States Constitution that would give women citizens of voting age the right to vote."

Based on the text, what does the word "establish" most nearly mean?

• destroy

• form

• make faster

• grow

Choose the answer that best completes this sentence below.

The National Women's Party took bold actions to get more support for women's right to vote.

________, they marched and gave out flyers to people on the streets.

• Therefore

• However

• Furthermore

• Specifically

What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

How did Alice Paul support the women's suffrage movement? Use information from the text to support your answer.

How can the suffragists best be described? Use information from the text to support your answer.