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The first woman's rights convention in America was held in: Declaration of Sentiments Word Cloud. © Jone Johnson Lewis, 2016 Boston, MA Seneca Falls, NY Cheyenne, WY Jamestown, VA Correct Wrong Seneca Falls was the site of the first women's rights convention in history. For more information: Seneca Falls 1848 Declaration of Sentiments Seneca Falls Women's Rights Resolutions 2. In 1868, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began publishing a newspaper. The slogan on the masthead said: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Kean Collection/Getty Images Failure is impossible. A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality. Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. Correct Wrong "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less" appeared on the masthead of their newspaper. One (the "man of quality") is a common t-shirt slogan, source unknown. The others are from Susan B. Anthony, but not from the newspaper masthead. Susan B. Anthony Quotes 3. The name of this newspaper published by Anthony and Stanton was: The Revolution The Lily Ms. Magazine Woman's Journal Correct Wrong Their paper was called The Revolution. Ms. Magazine is a more recent publication and the other two were other 19th century women's rights newspapers. (A different slogan on this issue: "Principle, not policy; justice, not favors.") 4. In the late 1860s, after the end of the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony: opposed the Fourteenth Amendment because it did away with provisions counting slaves as three fifths of a person supported the Fourteenth Amendment because it would provide the justification for women to vote supported the Fourteenth Amendment because it allowed women to submit petitions to their representatives opposed the Fourteenth Amendment because it limited the right of voting to male citizens Correct Wrong The fight about whether to support the 14th Amendment split the women's suffrage movement for decades. Read about the two wings that split because of this conflict: National Woman Suffrage Association - NWSA American Woman Suffrage Association - AWSA 5. In 1873, Susan B. Anthony went on trial, charged with: protesting in front of the White House voting founding an illegal organization preventing men from voting Correct Wrong In the presidential election of 1872, Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women registered to vote in Rochester, New York, and then went to the polling place to vote on November 5. All 15 were arrested, along with the registrars. 6. Which state became the first state east of the Mississippi to give women the right to vote in presidential elections? United States Map, 1913. Historic Map Works LLC / Getty Images Massachusetts Virginia New York Illinois Correct Wrong In 1913, after years of organizing, pressure on the General Assembly of Illinois came to fruition, with the passage of a bill in the legislature and then the signature of Governer Edward F. Dunne. In most states east of the Mississippi, women's right to vote came with the federal constitutional amendment in 1920. For more about which states granted suffrage when, see: Women's Suffrage Timeline State by State 7. Who was the first president of the organization formed when two major woman suffrage groups merged in 1890? May 3, 1913 Suffrage Parade, New York City. Paul Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Elizabeth Cady Stanton Florence Nightingale Alice Stone Blackwell Carrie Chapman Catt Correct Wrong Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first president after the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed from the former rival organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) 8. This same woman resigned as president two years later, after publishing a book that was sharply critical of Congress lynching men religion Correct Wrong A committee including Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman's Bible in 1895/1898, denouncing Biblical interpretation that they believed was biased against women, and highlighting the roles of women in the Bible. At a time when the suffrage movement was attempting to draw a wider circle of support, including among women in the South, Stanton's publication was felt by many in the movement to be distracting and even destructive of the goal of woman suffrage. Excerpt: Comments on Genesis 9. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage is identified mostly with which woman suffrage activist? Headquarters of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1917. Harris & Ewing/Buyenlarge/Getty Images Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Elizabeth Blackwell Jeannette Rankin Correct Wrong Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, at first within the National American Woman Suffrage Association and then later separated from NAWSA. Carrie Chapman Catt led the NAWSA at the time, Jeannette Rankin was a NAWSA member who ran for Congress and Elizabeth Blackwell is known as the first woman physician in the U.S. 10. This Methodist minister served for more than 10 years as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association: Antoinette Brown Blackwell Annie Wittenmyer Anna Howard Shaw Susan B. Anthony Correct Wrong Anna Howard Shaw was a minister, physician and women's rights advocate. Annie Wittenmyer was a temperance leader. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was an early woman minister, a Congregationalist who became a Unitarian. Susan B. Anthony was, though a suffrage leader, not a minister. 11. Who was the first woman elected to the United States Senate? United States Capitol. Alex Wong/Getty Images Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1932) Shirley Chisholm (1918) Rebecca Latimer Felton (1822) Jeannette Rankin (1917) Correct Wrong Hattie Caraway was elected to the Senate in January, 1932. She had been appointed in December 1931 to fill out the term of her husband who died suddenly. Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first woman to serve in the Senate, but she was appointed and never elected. Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of Representatives in 1968 and ran for president in 1972. Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, the first woman elected to the House. 12. During this woman's leadership of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the group worked for woman suffrage: Temperance Parade, 1908, Chicago. Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Carry Nation Lucy Stone Frances Willard Carrie Chapman Catt Correct Wrong Frances Willard headed the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 to 1898. Carry Nation worked for prohibition and was known for her hatchet, smashing saloons. Carrie Chapman Catt led a major woman suffrage organization, as did Lucy Stone earlier. 13. Which was NOT part of the "Southern strategy" adopted by the NAWSA in the 1890s? Ida B. Wells-Barnett. R. Gates/Hulton Archive/Getty Images convincing political leaders that women's vote would help solidify white supremacy a call for only educated women to get the vote including more African American women in leadership of the suffrage movement holding conventions in the south and excluding black women suffragists from these Correct Wrong The "southern strategy" was meant to gain support for the suffrage movement in the southern states. The argument was made that woman suffrage could, if only educated women were enfranchised, reinforce white supremacy. Some African American women were active working for the vote through NAWSA, but they were excluded from conventions of NAWSA held in the south. African American women were expected to have less visible roles, including marching at the back of the 1913 suffrage parade. Ida B. Wells joined the mostly-white Illinois delegation, against the wishes of the parade's organizers. 14. The first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank was the: National Woman's Party Protestors. Buyenlarge/Getty Images Progressive Party Democratic Party Know-Nothing Party Socialist Party Correct Wrong How ironic that the party nicknamed "Bull Moose Party" was the first to come out in favor of women voting? In 1912, Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt spoke out as an advocate for women's suffrage, something neither the Republican candidate, President William Howard Taft, nor the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was willing to do. The first national convention of the Progressive Party in 1912 endorsed woman suffrage in their platform. 15. The Congressional Union held a suffrage parade on the day when this President arrived in town for his inauguration: Program for the Suffrage Procession. Buyenlarge/Getty Images Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln Woodrow Wilson Correct Wrong When Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington the day before the inauguration, he found that the suffrage parade had drawn the crowds that he'd expected to be greeting him. 16. In what year was the U.S. Constitution amended to grant the right to vote in all states without regard to sex? George Washington at the Constitutional Convention. Fotosearch/Getty Images 1905 1912 1920 1968 Correct Wrong The long road to women's suffrage -- winning the legal right to vote -- ended in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. 17. This state, the 36th and deciding state to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, did so by only one vote: Tennessee Illinois Georgia Michigan Correct Wrong The final suffrage victory came in August, 1920, when the state of Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment by a margin of just one vote. 18. How many women at Seneca Falls in 1848 were alive & eligible to cast a vote after passage of the suffrage amendment? None One Three Fifteen Correct Wrong Charlotte Woodward was the only woman who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention who was alive in 1920 and eligible to vote. However, she was too ill to vote. Read more: who was the first woman in the United States to vote ? 19. Who was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when the Nineteenth Amendment passed? Officers of the NAWSA visit the White House in 1917. War Department/Buyenlarge/Getty Images Anna Howard Shaw Elizabeth Cady Stanton Alice Paul Carrie Chapman Catt Correct Wrong Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890, and served until 1892. Anna Howard Shaw was president from 1904 to 1915. Carrie Chapman Catt was president of the NAWSA from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 until the organization disbanded with the victory of the 19th Amendment. Alice Paul was part of the withdrawal from NAWSA of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, and helped found the National Woman's Party in 1917. In the photograph: Front row, left to right: Mrs. Wood Park, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Helen H. Gardner: second row, Miss Rose Young, Mrs. George Bass, and Miss Ruth White. 20. Where did Alice Paul get experience in more militant women's suffrage activism, leading to her strategy? Alice Paul. George Grantham Bain/PhotoQuest/Getty Images Wyoming's campaign for women's rights the anti-lynching campaign in the South the British suffrage movement suffrage parades organized by the American Woman Suffrage Association Correct Wrong In England to study at university, Alice Paul took part in more radical protests for woman suffrage, including participating in the hunger strikes. She brought back to the United States this sense of militancy, and organized protests and rallies, eventurally being imprisoned three times. 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