Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. Graddy can’t help but wonder about the dinner-table conversations that might have occurred between the young suffragist and her father-in-law, who, in his job as police chief, might have been arresting her fellow protesters. Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. In June 1917, the District of Columbia police began arresting picketers for obstructing sidewalk traffic. The women would be sentenced to serve in the Occoquan Workhouse Prison in Lorton, Virginia. In August, scuffles broke out at the gates of the White House as angry spectators assaulted suffragists while city police stood by. The picketing continued. Which sentence most accurately describes the sequence of events?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. In 1917, more than one thousand women stood before the White House in a cold, pouring rain, holding silent vigil to demand a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to them. Their quest to be enfranchised by law was known at the time as the Great Demand. The Smithsonian’s Great Demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. Their campaign on behalf of women sought to move America one step closer to fulfilling the nation’s long-deferred promise of equality under the law. Which statements about this excerpt are correct? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. The desire to document the women’s suffrage movement at the Smithsonian began in 1918 when members of NAWSA offered to donate a portrait of Susan B. Anthony by Sarah J. Eddy. The Smithsonian’s art gallery passed on it; the history division opined that it wasn’t interested. In 1919, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Smithsonian accepted the portrait, along with other items belonging to Anthony and the suffrage movement. Which sentence accurately describes the sequence of events?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. The Smithsonian banner was donated to the Institution by Martin Gilmer Louthan of Konawa, Oklahoma, in honor of his mother, Marie Gilmer Louthan (1891–1954). Louthan came to Washington to stay with her in-laws when her husband was sent overseas to serve in the war. Her father-in-law was the chief of U.S. Capitol Police during the years of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. According to Smithsonian curator Lisa Kathleen Graddy, "The family’s history has always been that Marie carried this banner in a women’s suffrage march during the years she was in D.C.” She could have carried it with a partner in the effort to surround the White House with a chain of purple, white, and gold banners, or it could have been a headquarters decoration—there’s simply no historical documentation. Graddy can’t help but wonder about the dinner-table conversations that might have occurred between the young suffragist and her father-in-law, who, in his job as police chief, might have been arresting her fellow protesters. Which statements about this excerpt are correct? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. Expand Image American suffrage banner The Smithsonian’s Great Demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. Their campaign on behalf of women sought to move America one step closer to fulfilling the nation’s long-deferred promise of equality under the law. Now read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects. Expand Image British suffragette penny As a campaigning strategy it was a stroke of genius. The artist Felicity Powell has a special interest in subversive medals: The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has, a bit like the internet today, to be widely circulated. Which statement best describes a difference between the two objects?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. On October 20, Alice Paul was arrested and sentenced to seven months in jail. She and her companions were held in solitary confinement and denied counsel. Paul went on a hunger strike and was violently force-fed. Authorities confined her to a psychiatric ward in an effort to discredit her. On November 14, thirty women in the Workhouse Prison were beaten, threatened, and mistreated in what came to be known as the Night of Terror. The subsequent storm of critical publicity was such that the administration itself soon called for the release of all suffragist prisoners. Which sentence most accurately describes the sequence of events?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. Paul continued the picketing after the inauguration. While Wilson might have been somewhat amused at first, his attitude changed with the picketers’ persistence. The silent sentinels, as the women called themselves, were increasingly seen as an embarrassment to the administration. Wilson was moving the United States toward war against Germany, and on April 2 told Congress that war was necessary in order that the world "be made safe for democracy.” The picketers’ banners pointed out the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy and freedom in Europe while denying it to women at home. Which statement best describes the author’s diction in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. On October 20, Alice Paul was arrested and sentenced to seven months in jail. She and her companions were held in solitary confinement and denied counsel. Paul went on a hunger strike and was violently force-fed. Authorities confined her to a psychiatric ward in an effort to discredit her. Which statement best describes the author’s diction in this excerpt?
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