The Fight for the Right to Vote

1. 1. Part A: Which inference can the reader make about women's rights before the 19th amendment?

• Each state determined the voting rights.

• In the North and the South, all women had voting rights.

• Women never had voting rights anywhere in the nation.

• Women had voting rights if they met certain conditions.

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3. 3. Part B: Which detail from paragraph 12 best supports the correct answer to Part A?

• "when World War I broke out in 1914"

• "Some women worked as nurses"

• "once women had proven that they were equal to men"

• "By the time the war was over in 1918"

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1. 1. Part B: Which detail from the article best supports the answer to Part A?

• "Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and family matters."

• "If women were citizens, and the 15th amendment said that citizens had the right to vote, why couldn't women vote?"

• "A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union."

• "In the late 19th century and early 20th century, several states in the West extended voting rights to women."

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2. 2. Which sentence from paragraphs 3 and 4 best supports the inference that some men supported the women's suffrage movement?

• One of these mean was the famous abolitionist Fredrick Douglass.

• The two women also supported the abolition of slavery.

• About forty men also attended the convention.

• There, a number of women's rights issues were discussed and a proclamation of demands, which included the right to vote, was written.

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6. 6. Which of the following helps the reader understand the connections between the women's suffrage movement and the abolitionist movement?

• The author reminds readers that many American take the right to vote for granted.

• The author states that founders of the women's suffrage movement were anti-slavery.

• The author suggests that the amendment giving women the right to vote was long overdue.

• The author describes how many women attended the first convention and what they accomplished.

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8. 8. Which detail from the section, "The Continued Struggle," would belong in an objective summary of the passage?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention for women's rights in Seneca Falls.

• Women tried to use the 14th amendment to grant women the right to vote.

• Women's participation in World War I began to change public opinion.

• African Americans were granted the right to vote.

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3. 3. Part A: Which central idea emerges from paragraph 12?

• Women were helpful during World War I, which broke out in 1914.

• Because of World War I, many Americans changed their opinions about women's roles.

• After World War I, American women gained the right to vote with an amendment in 1920.

• By the end of World War I, the major political parties in America agreed on women's suffrage.

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7. 7. The author uses the simile, "It was like sitting in a row boat without any oars" to describe that women felt

8. ( ) before they were given the right to vote.

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4. 4. Some members of the women's suffrage movement believed that a new amendment should give the right to vote to all citizens. Other members reasoned that once ( ) men got the right to vote it would be easier for women to get it, too.

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5. 5. Which event occurred first in the women's movement/fight for the right to vote?

• Stanton and Mott organized a movement.

• Wyoming gave females the right to vote.

• Several countries gave voting rights to women.

• The 19th amendment was accepted.

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