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 representativegovernment

B) A vote given in deciding a controversial question

1. Suffrage from the Latin word suffragium refers to…

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.

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.

2. What is the difference between the word suffragist and suffragette?

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

B) The abolitionist movement

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth CadyStanton both attended this conventionand organized the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention 8 years later.

The 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London

3. The origins of the women’s suffrage movement can be traced to…

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”

C) “The Declaration of Sentiments”

This statement was modeled afterthe Declaration of Independence, stating, “We hold these truths to beself-evident; that all men and women are created equal.” In addition, 11 resolutions werepresented. Only one was controversial: giving women theright to vote.

4. The Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls in 1848. The document drafted for this convention was called…

5. Early American suffragists got many of their reformist ideas from…

A) Native American women

B) British suffragists

C) Church law

A) Native American women

Seneca Falls was on Iroquoisland. Lucretia Mott, ElizabethCady Stanton and MatildaJoslyn Gage all had contact with Iroquois women.

5. Early American suffragists got many of their reformist ideas from…

POLITICAL POLITICALWOMEN CHOSE THEIR CHIEF. IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR WOMEN TO VOTE.

WOMEN HELD KEY POLITICAL WOMEN WERE EXCLUDED FROMOFFICES. 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

C) Theodore Roosevelt

While Woodrow Wilson endorsedwomen’s suffrage on the Democratic Party platform in 1916, it was Teddy Roosevelt’sBull Moose Party that firstsupported women’s suffrage in1912.

6. The first US President to support the idea of women’s suffrage was…

7. The first country to grant women’s suffrage was…

A) France

B) Mexico

C) New Zealand

C) New Zealand

New Zealand became the first country to allow women to vote in parliamentary elections in 1893.

7. The first country to grant women’s suffrage was…

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 theUnion 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 19th 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.

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.

9. The legislatures in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin all ratified the 19th amendment on June 10, 1919. Wisconsin was given credit for being the first to ratify because…

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 19th Amendment, some suffragists argued that women’s suffrage would help perpetuate Jim Crow laws by providing greater numbers of white votes.

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.

10. Early women’s suffragists were criticized for which of the following: (Choose two answers)

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?

False

“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumblingblock in the way of women’s emancipation.”

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked to bring her Christian beliefs into the women’s suffrage movement.

12. Susan B. Anthony worked to help pass the reconstruction amendments following the Civil War.

True or false?

The Reconstruction AmendmentsSection 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: 14th 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 malecitizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 1: 15th 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.

False

“I would rather cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman.”

-Susan B. Anthony

12. Susan B. Anthony worked to help pass the reconstruction amendments following the Civil War.

13. Wisconsin women could vote prior to 1920.

True or false?

TrueIn 1886, a referendum was approved allowing Wisconsin women to vote in “any election pertaining to school matters”.

13. Wisconsin women could vote prior to 1920.

14. Appleton was on the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement in Wisconsin.

True or false?

FalseMrs. 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.

14. Appleton was on the forefront of the women’s suffrage movement in Wisconsin.

15. The women’s suffrage movement was fractured in the 19th century, but became unified and focused during the 20th century.

True or false?

True National Woman’s Suffrage Association American Woman’s Suffrage Association

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Lucy StoneAs a result of the controversy over the Reconstruction Amendments which Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony refused to support, they formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Lucy Stone did support the amendments, and formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. The two groups would eventually merge in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) which would be led by Carrie Chapman Catt to steer ratification of the 19th Amendment.

15. The women’s suffrage movement was fractured in the 19th

century, but became unified and focused during the 20th

century.

And FalseAlice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt

Alice Paul led the National Woman’s Party which opted for more radical tactics. Carrie Chapman Catt led the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association. Her preferred strategy was to work within the existing political parties to accomplish the goal of women’s suffrage. The two women could never see eye-to-eye about how to achieve the common goal to which both devoted their lives.