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

A
Society believed that women should be allowed to attend school through high school.
B
Society believed that women should attend college and earn degrees.
C
Society believed that women needed only the ability to read, write, and do simple math.
D
Society believed that women needed to learn a foreign language and have an understanding of world affairs.
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Which of the following best describes the causes women reformers and activists focused on before the suffragist movement?

A
the temperance movement only
B
temperance, abolition of slavery, and education for women and girls
C
women's right to vote
D
women's right to vote and abolition of slavery
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Which of the following did Ukrainian immigrant Clara Lemlich accomplish in 1909?

A
suffrage for women in the state of New York
B
the founding of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
C
the publication of the magazine The Woman Rebel
D
better working conditions for female garment workers in New York City
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Which of the following did the five reformers who organized the Seneca Falls Convention have in common?

A
They came from states where women had gained suffrage.
B
They had gained political support by being jurors on important cases.
C
They were experienced at effectively organizing women’s rights conventions.
D
They were active in the abolition movement.
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Which of the following is considered to be the first major event of the women's movement?

A
the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention
B
the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
C
the Second Continental Congress
D
the Married Women’s Property Act
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is most noted for

A
forming the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
B
founding the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
C
helping draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
D
working as a nurse during World War I.
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Which of the following marked the achievement of a long-held suffragist goal in the early 1900s?

A
the Declaration of Sentiments
B
the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution
C
Catt’s “Winning Plan”
D
the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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Which best describes the main difference between the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)?

A
The NWSA divided its efforts between suffrage and abolition; the AWSA did not.
B
The NWSA believed that suffrage was inevitable; the AWSA believed actively working for suffrage.
C
The NWSA supported Catt’s “Winning Plan”; the AWSA did not.
D
The NWSA worked for a constitutional amendment granting suffrage; the AWSA fought for suffrage at the state level.
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In 1833, Oberlin College became the first US college to

A
admit women on equal terms with men.
B
educate only women and not men.
C
elect a woman as college president.
D
join women’s fight for temperance.
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The woman who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States was

A
Lucretia Mott.
B
Margaret Sanger.
C
Susan B. Anthony.
D
Emma Hart Willard.

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