First Wave Feminism

The Silent Sentinel picketers were given a choice: pay a fine or do jail time. Most chose _______.

• Pay a fine.

• Jail time.

Imprisoned women resorted to which non-violent tactics? Mark all that apply

• refusal to do assigned labor duties

• hunger strikes

• escaping the prison

Why did women need to educate themselves?

• In order to educate their own children

• In order to run the household when their husbands were away

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

• Own a firearm

• Vote in political elections

• Practice your religion

• Free speech

Which of the following is a common-law doctrine which stipulated that a married woman did not have a separate legal existence from her husband

• Propaganda

• Suffragette

• Coverture

• Anti-Suffragist

Which of the following are true of first wave feminists?

• They were housewives and homemakers

• Many of them were abolitionists.

• Many of them were women of color.

• There was no racism or exclusion.

• They attempted to gain equal rights for women, not just suffrage.

What was NOT one of the outcomes of the Women's March in Washington, DC?

• to gain attention and support for a Constitutional Amendment for women

• the day's events took attention away from Woodrow Wilson's inauguration

• the day's events took attention away from Woodrow Wilson's inauguration

• police were supportive of the women and protected them from agitators

Abolitionists wanted what practice to end immediately?

• The Civil War

• Unclean meat processing

• Women's voting

• Enslavement

In late 1916, suffragists had the radical idea to protest right outside of the ______, where they couldn’t be ignored. No one had done it before.

• White House

• Capitol Building

• Treasury

• Statue of Liberty

What were the Silent Sentinel picketors charged with by police?

• Obstruction of Traffic

• Loitering

• Trespassing

• Treason

• Protesting