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Question 1

Which best describes the causes women reformers and activists focused on before the suffragist movement?

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temperance, abolition of slavery, and education for women and girls

Question 2

Which of these is considered to be the first major event of the women's movement?

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the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

Question 3

Which of these marked the achievement of a long-held suffragist goal in the early 1900s?

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the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Question 4

Which best describes the main difference between the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)?

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The NWSA worked for a constitutional amendment granting suffrage; the AWSA fought for suffrage at the state level.

Question 5

Starting in the1800s, members of the suffragist movement in the United States focused on women's right to

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vote.

Question 6

What government action prompted the organization of two women’s suffrage groups in 1869?

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the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

Question 7

The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869 prompted the formation of two major suffrage organizations because

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it granted formerly enslaved men the right to vote, while women were still denied this right.

Question 8

Which statement best describes society's view on women and education in the early 1800s?

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Society believed that women needed only the ability to read, write, and do simple math.

Question 9

In the early 1800s, society considered temperance to be an acceptable cause for female reformers because this issue related to

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community welfare and family.

Question 10

Which of these did the five reformers who organized the Seneca Falls Convention have in common?

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They were active in the abolition movement.

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