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Read Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Why did women attempt to use the 14th Amendment to secure their right to vote? It addresses equality for all citizens. It claims to protect their lives. It describes who is a citizen of the country. It promises citizens equal protection under the law.

It addresses equality for all citizens.

Why did Alice Paul leave the National American Woman Suffrage Association? She believed in more aggressive tactics for achieving voting rights. She was in constant conflict within the group over how to gain members. She had political ambitions and wanted to serve as the organization's president. She wanted to start a new organization focused on religious preaching to achieve voting rights.

She believed in more aggressive tactics for achieving voting rights.

What did Susan B. Anthony hope to gain by her arrest for casting a ballot in 1872? She wanted to promote a run for public office. She wanted to bring attention to the cause of women's suffrage. She wanted to demonstrate problems with how votes were counted. She wanted to show women they could vote despite the law against it.

She wanted to bring attention to the cause of women's suffrage.

How did the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) differ from the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)? The NWSA had goals that expanded to include the rights of men as well as women. The NWSA did not want to place the focus of voting rights on any group other than women. The NWSA wanted to address the voting rights of both women and formerly enslaved people. The NWSA believed in using mostly aggressive tactics when trying to get the attention of lawmakers.

The NWSA wanted to address the voting rights of both women and formerly enslaved people.

How did women of the mid-19th century begin to establish more of a role in public society? They ran for important political offices. They became involved in reform movements. They tried to take political power away from men. They taught their daughters to work in jobs traditionally done by men.

They became involved in reform movements.

Which identifies the main reason women suffragists were interested in participating in the abolition movement? They believed ending slavery would lead to equality for women. They believed ending slavery would interest more people in suffrage movements. They believed slavery was polarizing the northern and southern regions of the nation. They believed slavery denied both men and women the freedoms and rights they were fighting for.

They believed slavery denied both men and women the freedoms and rights they were fighting for.

What was the main idea discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention? Women should be given the right to engage in any reform movement. Women should be given equal rights, and those rights needed to be recognized. Women should be allowed to access education at the same institutions as men. Women should be allowed to stay home raising families, and men should recognize this work.

Women should be given equal rights, and those rights needed to be recognized.

How did a woman's education differ from a man's education prior to the mid-19th century? Women's schools were unsanitary. Women's teachers were inadequate. Women's opportunities were unequal. Women's schools were more expensive.

Women's opportunities were unequal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for which issues? Select three options. abolition temperance women's rights fair working conditions reduction in city crime

abolition temperance women's rights

What were Elizabeth Cady Stanton's contributions to the women's suffrage movement? Select three options. proposed the Declaration of Sentiments got arrested for attempting to vote in an election co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association lectured in support of suffrage, temperance, and abolition proposed the "Winning Plan" for the National American Woman Suffrage Association

co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association lectured in support of suffrage, temperance, and abolition proposed the Declaration of Sentiments

Which rights did women become more active in pursuing after achieving the right to vote? Select four options. equal pay equal treatment access to credit military enlistment access to higher education

equal pay equal treatment access to credit access to higher education

What was the main goal of the National Woman Suffrage Association? gaining voting rights for women gaining property rights for women gaining political opportunities for women gaining coeducational opportunities for women

gaining voting rights for women

What tactics would have been used by Alice Paul's more aggressive followers? Select two options picketing in public areas engaging in hunger strikes writing newspaper articles lecturing at public conferences organizing letter-writing campaigns

picketing in public areas engaging in hunger strikes

Read the quote. It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women. . . . Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically. -Alice Paul, Following the passage of the 19th Amendment, 1920 What is Paul's main point about the new legislation? The new law will bring women their goal of equal rights very soon. Women should naturally expect to be treated more fairly under the new law. Women must fight each other politically to achieve true equality under the law. The new law giving women the right to vote was a first step in the long road to equality.

The new law giving women the right to vote was a first step in the long road to equality.

Based on the data, which conclusion can be drawn about the impact of the 19th Amendment? The high percentage of women voters has had a political impact. Despite the opportunity to vote, women do not vote as often as men. Despite the ability to vote, women register in lower numbers than men. The percentage of women voters remains high even decades later.

The percentage of women voters remains high even decades later.