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Vocab Women's history - 2023 ELA

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of destructive?

a)

causing reparations to those who are owed.

b)

causing great and irreparable harm or damage

c)

causing the subject to win and achieve.

2.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for women's right to vote, otherwise known as ____________.

a)

support

b)

suffrage

c)

suffering

d)

succotash

3.

Why did Rachel Carson write Silent Spring?

a)

to educate people about spring water.

b)

to educate people about community organizations.

c)

to educate people about plants.

d)

to educate people about the dangers of pesticides.

4.

"Carson had been hearing about DDT since a Swiss chemist discovered it could be used to kill insects in 1939. To many people, DDT seemed like a miracle __________", but Carson called it a ____________ because it "killed many living things, both bad and good."

a)

subversive....

biome

b)

subtraction....

biology

c)

subsistence .....

biodiversity

d)

substance....

biocide

5.

A ____________ is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

a)

fable

b)

farce

c)

form

d)

future-perfect

6.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony "together edited and published a woman's newspaper, ___________, from 1868 to 1870."

a)

the Fables

b)

the Feminist

c)

the Revolution

d)

the Independent

7.

Lucretia Mott was an _____________ abolitionist who was known to be direct and open in speech or expression.

a)

outspoken

b)

outgrowth

c)

outskirts

d)

outermost

8.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton "believed that the laws that treated women differently than men needed to be ___________. Stanton drafted a "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments," which she modeled after the Declaration of Independence. In the document, she called for moral, economic, and political equality for women."

a)

reflected

b)

rejoiced

c)

reformed

d)

readied

9.

to further the progress of (something, especially a cause, venture, or aim); the act of supporting or actively encouraging someone or something.

a)

procure

b)

promoting

c)

promenade

d)

profane

10.

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment:

a)

ecospere

b)

economy

c)

ecosystem

d)

ecotourism

11.

"Although [Carson] was alarmed by __________ pesticide poisoning (like Huckins' dead birds), she was even more concerned about the slow poisoning of plants, animals, and people from pesticides."

a)

acute

b)

actual

c)

actor

d)

access