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Women's Rights

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848?

a)

Dallas, Texas

b)

Seneca Falls, New York

c)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

d)

Nashville, Tennessee

2.

___________________________ wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come.

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Michelle Obama

3.

The first state constitution in California extends __________ rights to women in 1849.

a)

Voting

b)

Banking

c)

Property

d)

Child Custody

4.

At a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, __________________, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech, "Ain't I a woman?"

a)

Betsy Ross

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Alice Paul

5.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of _________________. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”

a)

The Suffragette Gazette

b)

The Revolution

c)

Women's Rights Journal

d)

Ain't I a Woman Too

6.

Many women were fined and arrested for attempting to vote.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

The western states were the first to give women the right to vote.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

8.

Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first __________ elected to the House of Representatives in 1916.

a)

African-American Male

b)

Woman

c)

African-American Woman

d)

Hispanic Woman

9.

____________ was the leader of the National Woman’s Party. She was put in solitary confinement in the mental ward of the prison as a way to “break” her will. She went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat until women gain the right to vote. The guards try to force feed her to keep her alive.

a)

Alice Paul

b)

Lucy Burns

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Hillary Clinton

10.

The Senate finally passes the ____ Amendment and the ratification process begins. On August 26, 1920 - Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American Women win full voting rights.

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21st

e)

22nd

11.

Most men in Congress refused to give women the right to vote. For over one hundred years, men refused to support a woman's right of suffrage.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

12.

Which of the rights listed below were denied women in America prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment?

a)

Property Rights

b)

Custodial Rights

c)

Voting Rights

d)

Banking Rights

e)

ALL OF THE RIGHTS LISTED