How much do you know about women’s suffrage?
1. Suffrage from the Latin word suffragium refers to… A) Those who suffered to obtain the right to vote B) A vote given in deciding a controversial question C) The sacrifices which must be made for representative government
1. Suffrage from the Latin word suffragium refers to… B) A vote given in deciding a controversial question
2. What is the difference between the word suffragist and suffragette ? A) Suffragist refers to males and suffragette refers to females. B) Suffragist was used to refer to women seeking the right to vote whereas these women referred to themselves as suffragettes. C) Suffragette is a derogatory term while suffragist is not.
2. What is the difference between the word suffragist and suffragette ? C) Suffragette is a derogatory term while suffragist is not. At first the term was used to mock the British suffragists, but they embraced it and used it to their advantage.
3. The origins of the women’s suffrage movement can be traced to… A) The Women’s Christian Temperance Union B) The abolitionist movement C) Reconstruction following the Civil War
3. The origins of the women’s suffrage movement can be traced to… B) The abolitionist movement Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both attended this convention and organized the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention 8 years later. The 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
4. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. The document drafted for this convention was called… A) “The Inalienable Rights for Women” B) “The Declaration of the Rights of Women” C) “The Declaration of Sentiments”
4. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. The document drafted for this convention was called… C) “The Declaration of Sentiments” This statement was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” In addition, 11 resolutions were presented. Only one was controversial: giving women the right to vote.
5. Early American suffragists got many of their reformist ideas from… A) Native American women B) British suffragists C) Church law
5. Early American suffragists got many of their reformist ideas from… A) Native American women Seneca Falls was on Iroquois land. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage all had contact with Iroquois women.
POLITICAL POLITICAL WOMEN CHOSE THEIR CHIEF. IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR WOMEN TO VOTE. WOMEN HELD KEY POLITICAL WOMEN WERE EXCLUDED FROM OFFICES. POLITICAL OFFICE. TRIBAL LAW ENSURED WOMEN’S COMMON LAW DEFINED MARRIED POLITICAL AUTHORITY WHETHER WOMEN AS “DEAD TO THE LAW”. SINGLE OR MARRIED. DECISION-MAKING WAS BY DECISION-MAKING WAS BY CONSENSUS AND EVERYONE MAJORITY RULE AMONG MEN. HAD A VOICE. SOURCE: SISTERS IN SPIRIT BY SALLY ROESCH WAGNER
6. The first US President to support the idea of women’s suffrage was… A) Abraham Lincoln B) Woodrow Wilson C) Theodore Roosevelt
6. The first US President to support the idea of women’s suffrage was… C) Theodore Roosevelt While Woodrow Wilson endorsed women’s suffrage on the Democratic Party platform in 1916, it was Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party that first supported women’s suffrage in 1912.
7. The first country to grant women’s suffrage was… A) France B) Mexico C) New Zealand
7. The first country to grant women’s suffrage was… C) New Zealand New Zealand became the first country to allow women to vote in parliamentary elections in 1893.
8. The first U.S. state to include women’s suffrage in its constitution was… A) California B) Wyoming C) New York
8. The first U.S. state to include women’s suffrage in its constitution was… B) Wyoming Western states came into the Union granting women’s suffrage in their state constitutions. Wyoming was the first in 1890.
9. The legislatures in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin all ratified the 19 th amendment on June 10, 1919. Wisconsin was given credit for being the first to ratify because… A) Its papers were the first to be filed in Washington, D.C. B) A legislator in Illinois delayed the vote in Springfield due to the birth of his daughter C) The official time stamp on Michigan’s papers was smudged and therefore judged invalid.
9. The legislatures in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin all ratified the 19 th amendment on June 10, 1919. Wisconsin was given credit for being the first to ratify because… A) Its papers were the first to be filed in Washington, D.C. Former Wisconsin Senator David James hand-carried the official papers across the country, arriving on June 13, 1919.
10. Early women’s suffragists have been criticized for which of the following: (Choose two answers) A) Lack of support for women of color B) Violence and destruction of property C) Association with the temperance movement
10. Early women’s suffragists were criticized for which of the following: (Choose two answers) A) Lack of support for women of color In the definitive work of the time, The History of Women’s Suffrage, Black women were hardly mentioned despite the fact that the three main authors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage all began their activism as abolitionists. In order to secure the votes needed from southern states to ratify the 19 th Amendment, some suffragists argued that women’s suffrage would help perpetuate Jim Crow laws by providing greater numbers of white votes.
10. Early women’s suffragists were criticized for which of the following: (Choose two answers) C) Association with the temperance movement As a result of widespread alcoholism among soldiers after the Civil War, women often experienced financial ruin due to having no property rights, so many women supported prohibition which in itself was very controversial at the time.
The National Woman’s Party, headed by Alice Paul, used tactics such as picketing which resulted in arrests. Paul was influenced by suffragists from England where the movement was more violent. As a Quaker, however, Paul supported civil disobedience but not violence. The Silent Sentinels picketing in front of the White House. British suffragettes
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked to bring her Christian beliefs into the women’s suffrage movement. True or false?
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked to bring her Christian beliefs into the women’s suffrage movement. False “The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12. Susan B. Anthony worked to help pass the reconstruction amendments following the Civil War. True or false?
The Reconstruction Amendments Section 1: 13th Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Section 2: 14 th Amendment: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Section 1: 15 th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
12. Susan B. Anthony worked to help pass the reconstruction amendments following the Civil War. False “I would rather cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman.” -Susan B. Anthony
13. Wisconsin women could vote prior to 1920. True or false?
13. Wisconsin women could vote prior to 1920. True In 1886, a referendum was approved allowing Wisconsin women to vote in “any election pertaining to school matters”.
14. Appleton was on the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement in Wisconsin. True or false?
14. Appleton was on the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement in Wisconsin. False Mrs. Rush Winslow was president of the Outagamie County Political Equality League. Minna Rogers Winslow appears to have been the most prominent Appleton woman sympathetic to the women’s suffrage cause, however, there is not much else in the historical record to indicate that Appleton women had much interest in the women’s suffrage movement.
15. The women’s suffrage movement was fractured in the 19 th century, but became unified and focused during the 20 th century. True or false?
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