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WorksheetsFight for Women's Rights
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 3mins
In 1848, women first gathered here to begin their official fight for Suffrage?
Seneca Falls, New York
Salem, Ohio
Albany, New York
Worcester, Massachusetts
All of the following important people attended the Seneca Falls Convention EXCEPT-
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Frederick Douglass
True or False - Rosa Parks was one of the most famous leaders who attended the Seneca Falls Convention
True
False
When did the Constitution get amended to protect women's right to vote?
1776
1920
1922
2003
This amendment guaranteed women's right to vote
14th
18th
19th
21rd
Which one of these was NOT a tactic that women used to fight for their right to vote?
Parades
Making political memes
Conventions
Picketing
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
parade
sit-down strike
hunger strike
letter to the editor
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.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Ida B. Wells
Dorothy Height
Fannie Lou Hamer
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.
True
False
Suffragists had the radical idea to protest right outside of the White House, where they couldn’t be ignored. They were called the ___________.
"handmaids"
"N.O.W."
"NAACP"
“silent sentinels”
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!"
Carrie Chapman Catt
Dorothy Day
Lucy Burns
Matilda Hall Gardner
