1.
How many of the original thirteen colonies required their citizens to own property or pay taxes in order to vote?
5
10
12
13
2.
In 1776, which state became the first to allow women and free African Americans to vote?
Pennsylvania
Virginia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
3.
Which amendment prohibited states from denying the right to vote to anyone on the basis of "race, color or previous condition of servitude?"
12th
13th
14th
15th
4.
Which was the first state or territory to give women the vote, in 1869?
Wyoming
Florida
Utah
California
5.
Opponents of women's suffrage argued against allowing women to vote for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
that it would increase family strife
that it would encourage women to seek jobs outside the home
that it would erode the boundaries between masculinity and femininity
that it would degrade women by exposing them to the corrupt world of politics
6.
The innovator of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, which demanded equality with men before law, was also a mother of eight. Who was she?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojouner Truth
Lucretia Mott
7.
This progressive suffragist called for enfranchisement based on her opinion that governing a modern city required large amounts of "housekeeping," which suited the particular talents and experiences of women:
Jane Addams
Florence Kelly
Carrie Chapman Catt
Harriot Stanton Blatch
8.
Who was arrested for successfully, but illegally, voting for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election?
Sarah Grimke
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth
9.
What was the name of the 1875 Supreme Court case that struck down a Missouri Woman's claim that the 1st and 14th Amendments guaranteed her the right to vote?
Graves v. Eubank
U.S. v Susan B. Anthony
Minor v. Happersett
State v. Mittle
10.
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, gave American women the right to vote. The number of states to fully enfranchise women
before
the passage of the 19th Amendment was:
12
none
3
15
11.
In 1916, this woman became the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. Who was she?
Alice Paul
Jeanette Rankin
Carrie Chapman Catt
Lucretia Mott
12.
Which nation was the first to grant women full voting rights?
Great Britain
New Zealand
Australia
France
13.
In 1923, the National Woman's Party first proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender. When was the amendment ratified?
1923
1951
1977
It has never been ratified
14.
When was the federal Voting Rights Act passed?
1965
1919
1950
1972
15.
Debates over voting rights continue in modern times. Areas of contention include all of the following EXCEPT:
Whether or not convicted felons who have served their time should be allowed to vote
Whether non-citizens should have the right to vote, for example, in local school board elections
Whether or not the Electoral College, our country's indirect system of electing a president over represents small states, should be abolished
Whether the voting age should be lowered again, perhaps to sixteen
All of the above
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