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Fight for Women's Rights

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1848, women first gathered here to begin their official fight for Suffrage?

a)

Seneca Falls, New York

b)

Salem, Ohio

c)

Albany, New York

d)

Worcester, Massachusetts

2.
The terms suffrage and franchise refer to this -
a)
Slavery
b)
Voting
c)
Trade
d)
Income
3.

All of the following important people attended the Seneca Falls Convention EXCEPT-

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Lucretia Mott

c)

Sonia Maria Sotomayor

d)

Frederick Douglass

4.

True or False - Rosa Parks was one of the most famous leaders who attended the Seneca Falls Convention

a)

True

b)

False

5.
The women who attended the Seneca Falls Convention had spent most of their energy previously to fight against what political and social issue?
a)
Income Inequality
b)
Slavery
c)
Prohibition
d)
Unions
6.

When did the Constitution get amended to protect women's right to vote?

a)

1776

b)

1920

c)

1922

d)

2003

7.

This amendment guaranteed women's right to vote

a)

14th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21rd

8.

Which one of these was NOT a tactic that women used to fight for their right to vote?

a)

Parades

b)

Making political memes

c)

Conventions

d)

Picketing

9.

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns planned a ____________ in Washington D.C. for the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration to call attention to the suffrage issue

a)

parade

b)

sit-down strike

c)

hunger strike

d)

letter to the editor

10.

Largely excluded by white suffrage leaders, Black women created a groundbreaking club network that drove social and political change across the country. In Illinois ______ and her Alpha Suffrage Club had helped add more than 23,000 new voters to the voter rolls.

a)

Mary McLeod Bethune

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Dorothy Height

d)

Fannie Lou Hamer

11.

True or False - Some suffragettes went to jail, went on hunger strikes, and were even force fed in prison all in the name of advancing women's right to vote.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Suffragists had the radical idea to protest right outside of the White House, where they couldn’t be ignored. They were called the ___________.

a)

"handmaids"

b)

"N.O.W."

c)

"NAACP"

d)

“silent sentinels”

13.

National suffragist leader and powerful speaker, ______ once remarked:

"The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty... Women have suffered agony of soul, which you can never comprehend, that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. The vote has been costly. Prize it! The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Understand what it means and what it can do for your country. Use it intelligently, conscientiously, prayerfully... Progress is calling you to make no pause. Act!"

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Dorothy Day

c)

Lucy Burns

d)

Matilda Hall Gardner