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In 1833, Oberlin College became the first US college to

admit women on equal terms with men.

educate only women and not men.

elect a woman as college president.

join women’s fight for temperance.

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Which of the following is considered to be the first major event of the women's movement?

the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention

the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

the Second Continental Congress

the Married Women’s Property Act

Which of the following marked the achievement of a long-held suffragist goal in the early 1900s?

the Declaration of Sentiments

the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Catt’s “Winning Plan”

the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869 prompted the formation of two major suffrage organizations because

it marked a great success for the abolition movement, which many feminists opposed.

it granted formerly enslaved men the right to vote, while women were still denied this right.

it put a halt to Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” and set back the cause of women’s suffrage.

it granted women the right to vote in Western states but not in Eastern states.

In the early 1800s, society considered temperance to be an acceptable cause for female reformers because this issue related to

equality between men and women.

community welfare and family.

a woman's ability to provide for her family.

access to education.

Read the quotation by Abigail Adams.“[I]n the new Code of Laws…Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors...If [particular] care and attention is not paid to the [Ladies] we are determined to foment a [Rebellion], and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”Which of the following best describes Abigail Adams' view on the role of women in society?

Adams understood the necessity of a double standard between men and women.

Adams believed that women had traditionally been denied a voice in society’s affairs, and that this should change.

Adams was pleased with the traditional situation of women, and she wanted it to continue in the new nation.

Adams believed that women had traditionally been denied a voice in society’s affairs, and she planned to start a suffrage group.

What government action prompted the organization of two women’s suffrage groups in 1869?

the arrest of Margaret Sanger

the announcement of Catt’s “Winning Plan”

the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Which of the following shows the correct order of events?

Catt’s “Winning Plan,” suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment

suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment, Catt’s “Winning Plan”

suffrage in some Western states, Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment

Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment, suffrage in some Western states

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is most noted for

forming the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

founding the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.

helping draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.

working as a nurse during World War I.

Which of the following did Ukrainian immigrant Clara Lemlich accomplish in 1909?

suffrage for women in the state of New York

the founding of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union

the publication of the magazine The Woman Rebel

better working conditions for female garment workers in New York City

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