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Women's Suffrage & Temperance Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Founded in 1874, this organization advocated for the prohibition of alcohol, using women's supposedly greater purity and morality as a rallying point. Advocates of prohibition in the United States found common cause with activists elsewhere, especially in Britain.

a)

The Anti-Saloon League

b)

Women's Christian Temperance Union

c)

National American Woman Suffrage Association

d)

Settlement House Movement

2.

An energetic reformer from Iowa who became the new president of the NAWSA in 1900. She argued for the vote as a broadening of democracy which would empower women, thus enabling them to more actively care for their families in an industrial society.

a)

Carrie Nation

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Carrie Chapman Catt

3.

The founder of the National Women's party, she took a more militant approach to gaining the right to vote. She led women in mass pickets, parades, and hunger strikes to convince the govt of women's suffrage.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Carrie Chapman Catt

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Jane Addams

4.

Which pairing correctly connects the main character in this image to the societal issue they were trying to address?

a)

Carrie Nation- Temperance

b)

Lucy Stone- Woman's Suffrage

c)

Carrie Nation- Woman's Suffrage

d)

Carrie Chapman Catt- Temperance

5.
What American Suffragist was arrested for picketing the White House on behalf of Suffrage?
a)
Carrie Chapman Catt
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Alice Paul
d)
Betty Friedan
6.
The ________Amendment started Prohibition.  
a)
10th 
b)
19th 
c)
20th 
d)
18th 
7.

Which two female leaders were heavily involved in both woman's suffrage and temperance movement?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul

b)

Lucy Burns and Alice Paul

c)

Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

8.

Which of the following choices best describes Frances Willard?

a)

(1858-1952) Married William Boole, a Temperance Activist. Became the Vice-President of her local chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

b)

(1839-1898) Became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy.

c)

(1846-1911) Temperance advocate; she took extreme measures to further her cause by entering saloons in her native state of Kansas and smashing bottles of alcohol with a hatchet.

9.

What did the 21st Amendment accomplish?

a)

It repealed the 18th Amendment by legalizing the sale and consumption of alcohol.

b)

It repealed the 15th Amendment

c)

It repealed the 19th Amendment by legalizing the sale and consumption of alcohol.

10.

What did the Supreme Court rule about labor laws in the case Muller v. Oregon?

a)

Supreme Court sided with business owners by refusing to uphold a law limiting baker to a 10-hour workday on the grounds that it denied workers their right to make contracts with employees.

b)

Supreme Court upheld a law that extended the protection of a 10-hour workday to men working in mills and factories

c)

Supreme Court upheld a law that children could work in factories as long as they had their parents' permission.

d)

Supreme Court sided with workers and upheld a state law establishing a 10-hour workday for women in laundries and factories. The court found that the "differences between sexes" should keep women at home and take of children.