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Week 4: Women's Rights and Suffrage Answers

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is most noted for

A
forming the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
B
founding the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
C
helping draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
D
working as a nurse during World War I.
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Which of the following shows the correct order of events?

A
Catt’s “Winning Plan,” suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment
B
suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment, Catt’s “Winning Plan”
C
suffrage in some Western states, Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment
D
Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment, suffrage in some Western states
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The woman who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States was

A
Lucretia Mott.
B
Margaret Sanger.
C
Susan B. Anthony.
D
Emma Hart Willard.
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What government action prompted the organization of two women’s suffrage groups in 1869?

A
the arrest of Margaret Sanger
B
the announcement of Catt’s “Winning Plan”
C
the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
D
the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
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Which of the following marked the achievement of a long-held suffragist goal in the early 1900s?

A
the Declaration of Sentiments
B
the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution
C
Catt’s “Winning Plan”
D
the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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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?

A
Adams understood the necessity of a double standard between men and women.
B
Adams believed that women had traditionally been denied a voice in society’s affairs, and that this should change.
C
Adams was pleased with the traditional situation of women, and she wanted it to continue in the new nation.
D
Adams believed that women had traditionally been denied a voice in society’s affairs, and she planned to start a suffrage group.
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Which of the following was the goal of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s National Woman Suffrage Association?

A
the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in Congress
B
the establishment of women’s colleges throughout the US
C
the passage of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote
D
the abolition of slavery throughout the US
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Starting in the1800s, members of the suffragist movement in the United States focused on women's right to

A
own property.
B
vote.
C
serve on a jury.
D
teach school.
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Which of the following did the five reformers who organized the Seneca Falls Convention have in common?

A
They came from states where women had gained suffrage.
B
They had gained political support by being jurors on important cases.
C
They were experienced at effectively organizing women’s rights conventions.
D
They were active in the abolition movement.
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Which of the following best describes the causes women reformers and activists focused on before the suffragist movement?

A
the temperance movement only
B
temperance, abolition of slavery, and education for women and girls
C
women's right to vote
D
women's right to vote and abolition of slavery

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