Remember The Ladies: The Importance of Women's History | Emily K

The Massachusetts State Constitution starts with these words...

• All men are born free and equal

• All white men are born free and equal

• All men are created free and equal

• Everyone is born free and equal

The Massachusetts State Constitution was modeled after...

• The US Constitution

• The US Declaration of Independence

• A speech by Abraham Lincoln

• A speech by MLK

After an enslaved woman named Mum Bett hears that "all men are born equal" in the Massachusetts State Constitution when it was read aloud in a public square, she decides to...

• Quit her job.

• Become a run away slave.

• Show her slave owner the law.

• Sue in court her slave owner.

Emily mentions that less than ____% of the US education curriculum is about women.

• 50

• 40

• 20

• 10

Emily's argument is that young girls need to...

• be educated about stories of accomplished women.

• start demanding higher salaries.

• complain about housework.

• just be quiet and obey.

Emily relates a story about how Abigail Adams the wife of John Adams, one of the composers of the Declaration of Independence, requested that in the writing they...

• remember that we are all equal.

• remember the ladies.

• to not forget that blacks are equal to whites.

• remember that we are all God's children.