WorksheetsWomen’s Fight for Voting Rights/Social Reform Unit Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is the term used to describe the right to vote in political elections?
Emancipation
Suffrage
Abolition
Segregation
Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote in national elections?
United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
France
In what year did women in the United States gain the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment?
1865
1920
1945
1964
Who was a famous leader of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States?
Rosa Parks
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
Eleanor Roosevelt
What was the name of the movement that fought for women’s right to vote?
Civil Rights Movement
Suffrage Movement
Temperance Movement
Labor Movement
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote?
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Which British suffragette was known for her militant tactics and leadership in the fight for women’s voting rights?
Emmeline Pankhurst
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria
Ada Lovelace
What was the main goal of the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848?
To end slavery
To promote women’s suffrage
To improve working conditions
To support prohibition
Which of the following statements is true about women’s suffrage?
All women worldwide gained the right to vote at the same time
Women in some countries still do not have the right to vote
Women have always had the right to vote
Only men fought for women’s suffrage
Which U.S. state was the first to grant women the right to vote?
California
Wyoming
New York
Texas
What is the significance of the color white in the women’s suffrage movement?
It represented peace and purity
It was the color of the opposition
It symbolized wealth
It was chosen at random
Which famous document was modeled after the Declaration of Independence and called for women’s rights, including the right to vote?
The Magna Carta
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Sentiments
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
(a)
(a) proposed the Declaration of Sentiments to the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
(a) was arrested for attempting to vote and refused to pay her fine in 1872.
(a) impressed the retiring Susan B. Anthony, who selected her to lead the NAWSA.
(a) engaged in hunger strikes while imprisoned as a tactic to gain public attention.
By 1910 (a) states had passed laws to allow women to vote.
More than 40 years after the 19th amendment was proposed, it was rejected (a) by three-fourths of the states.
A vote from Tennessee led to the ratification and acceptance of women’s voting rights in (a)
