Women's Suffrage

What did the Milwaukee College of Women train students for?

• marriage, motherhood, and housekeeping

• the Christian ministry

• exercising their right to vote

• history, mathematics, and physics

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

• own a firearm
• vote in political elections
• practice your religion
• free speech

In 1848, this official document was written, outlining the arguments for women's suffrage was based closely upon another document written in frustration.

• Declaration of the Rights of Women
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of Sentiments
• Declaration of Suffrage 

Mary Lyon modeled her school, ____, on Amherst College.

• Troy Female Seminary vote

• Geneva College

• Oberlin College

• Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

Susan B. Anthony believed that ____.

• men and women should be educated together

• the temperance movement was a mistake

• women should only be homemakers

• girls needed only a high school education

Which reformer at the Seneca Falls Convention was uncomfortable with the idea of suffrage for women?

• Frederick Douglass

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

The cartoon below represents the views of a reform movement from US history.

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Women's Suffrage

• Child Labor reform

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 crafted a document that was very similar to the __________________.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Halifax Resolves
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation

Many women abolitionists also worked for women’s rights. In July 1848, Lucretia Mott and ________________________ held the first women’s rights convention. It was in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention laid the foundation for the women’s rights movement.

• Emily Dickinson

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

Before the mid-1800's, women had few rights. What they owned belonged to their ______________ when they married. In the mid- to late 1800's, women got some rights. Some states allowed married women to own property. Some states passed laws that gave rights to divorced women.

• children

• parents

• husbands

• brothers