Equal Rights for Women

Shirley Chisholm thinks that this kind of prejudice will be the hardest to end,

• prejudice against blacks

• prejudice against whites

• prejudice against women

• prejudice against immigrants

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Which audience is Shirley Chisholm addressing in her "Equal Rights for Women" speech?

• Women of color

• All women

• Congress

• The American people

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Which experience does Shirley Chisholm sees as similar between blacks and women?

• Women and blacks are seen as different

• Low paying jobs for black;

• high ranking Jobs for men or whites ONLY

• blacks and women are inferior

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According to Chisholm, what were "acceptable" jobs for women in 1969?

• secretaries, librarians, and teachers

• doctors, managers, lawyers

• cashier, shoe clerk, manicurist

• engineer, welder

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It’s the year 1847 and Hallie is tired of being treated as a second-class citizen. As a married woman, she does not have the right to own property and she has no legal claim to any money that she earns. She and a group of concerned activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, hold a convention in Seneca Falls, NY with a plan to change the world. Join Hallie as she marches, lobbies, and struggles to win equal rights for her gender, one mind at a time.

• Character vs. Self

• Character vs. Character

• Character vs. Society

• Character vs. Nature

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What is the name of the amendment Chisholm was proposing to Congress in 1969?

• The Give Us Our Rights Amendment.

• The Women Are Equal Amendment.

• The Equality Amendment.

• The Equal Rights Amendment

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According to the Suffrage article, what is usually thought of as being the beginning of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in the United States?

• The Seneca Falls Convention

• The creation of the National Woman Suffrage Association

• The American Revolution

• The reading of the Declaration of the Rights of Women

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According to the Suffrage article, in 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association.

• True

• False

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What is Truth's point in writing this speech?

• to fight for equal rights for men and women

• to complain

• to list what she has been through 

• to fight slavery

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Who wrote the text that we read entitled "Ain't I A Woman?"

• Sojourner Truth

• Michelle Obama

• Beyonce

• Martha Washington

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