Rhode Island
Although women would not win the vote nationally until the 20th century, from 1776-1807 single women who met property qualifications were eligible to vote under the constitution of which state?
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WOMEN GET THE VOTE
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
New
Jersey
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Although women would not win the vote nationally until the 20th century, from 1776-1807 single women who met property qualifications were eligible to vote under the constitution of which state?
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
New Jersey
New York
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
The first national convention for women’s rights was held in 1848. In what city was it held?
Lancaster, Pa.
Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Providence, R.I.
Wilmington, Del.
William Howard Taft
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Who was president of the United States when the 19th Amendment was ratified?
18
7
12
15
How many states
had granted women
the right to vote in all state elections prior to ratification of the 19th Amendment?
How many states allowed women to vote in some, but not all, elections prior to the 19th Amendment’s ratification?
All states
15
21
23
Tennessee
Illinois
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Which state was the 36th state to vote in favor of the 19th Amendment, providing the three-fourths’ majority necessary for the amendment to become part of the Constitution?
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Which famous suffragette said:
“It was we, the people;
not we, the white male citizens;
nor yet we, the male citizens;
but we, the whole people,
who formed the Union”?
Dorothea Dix
Victoria Woodhull
Catherine Beecher
Clara
Barton
Which of the following women ran for president of the United States 48 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified?
Silent Sentinels
American Heritage Girls
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mothers of the Movement
In 1917, members of the National Woman’s Party began protesting outside the White House in support of the 19th Amendment. What was the nickname of this group of women protesters?
Poland
Canada
France
Germany
Women were able to vote in many other countries before they were granted the franchise here. Which of the following countries had not granted women this right before the 19th Amendment was ratified?
ABOUT THE WRITER: Sarah Morgan Smith is director of faculty at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University and general editor of Ashbrook’s Core Documents curriculum for middle and high school teachers.
This quiz, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of women’s suffrage.
1915: Suffrage envoys from San Francisco were greeted in New Jersey on their way to Washington to present a petition to Congress.
Library of Congress photo
Library of Congress photo
1848: At the First Woman's Rights Convention, the Declaration of Sentiments, a rewriting Declaration of Independence to include women, was accepted.
Library of Congress photo
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Seneca Falls, N.Y.
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Library of Congress photo
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1916: National Woman’s Party demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago after Congress failed to act on the federal suffrage amendment.
Library of Congress photo
Woodrow
Wilson
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Suffrage buttons would often display stars representing the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made.
National Museum of American History buttons
15 states
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Library of Congress photo
Harvard University Library photo
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1914: Map showing when women were granted full or partial suffrage.
Harvard University Library photo
21 states
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Library of Congress photo
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1920: The Tennessee General Assembly narrowly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, providing the necessary three-fourths majority for an amendment to the Constitution
Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument in Centennial Park, Nashville
Sharon Mollerus - Flickr photo
Tennessee
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Wisconsin State Journal archives
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Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. She died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Library of Congress photo
Susan B. Anthony
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Library of Congress engraving
Harvard Art Museum photo
Victoria Woodhull
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1872: Woodhull was the presidential candidate from the Equal Rights Party, supporting women's suffrage and equal rights; her running mate was black abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.
Library of Congress photo
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1920: Officers of the National Woman's Party hold a banner with a Susan B. Anthony quote in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress photo
Silent Sentinels
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The British Library photo
RETAKE QUIZ
1937: Demonstration for the right to vote of French women
National Library of France photo
France
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1910
1911
1912
1914
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1916: National Woman’s Party demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago after Congress failed to act on the federal suffrage amendment.
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Library of Congress photo
Suffrage buttons would often display stars representing the number of states in which women had full suffrage at the time it was made.
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National Museum of American History buttons
Woodrow Wilson
THE ANSWER IS...
Harvard University Library photo
1914: Map showing when women were granted full or partial suffrage.
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Harvard University Library photo
Library of Congress photo
1920: The Tennessee General Assembly narrowly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument in Centennial Park, Nashville.
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Sharon Mollerus - Flickr photo
Wisconsin State Journal archives
Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. She died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
NEXT
Library of Congress photo
Library of Congress engraving
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Harvard Art Museum photo
1872: Woodhull was the presidential candidate from the Equal Rights Party; her running mate was black abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass.
Library of Congress engraving
NEXT
Library of Congress photo
1920: Officers of the National Woman's Party hold a banner with a Susan B. Anthony quote in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The British Library photo
NEXT
National Library of France photo
1937: Demonstration for the right to vote of French women