Kate Chopin and the Suffrage Movement For the CSET

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17. The National Woman’s Party, the U.S. militant suffrage organization founded in 1913,

A. Disbanded after suffrage was achieved.

B. Became the League of Women Voters.

C. Still advocates for women’s legal equality.

Answer Key

1. B, 2. C, 3. A, 4. D, 5. B, 6. D, 7. A, 8. C, 9. A, 10. A, 11. C, 12. A, 13. D, 14. B (In 1647 Brent, who owned extensive properties in Maryland, demanded the right to vote in the colonial assembly. Wollstonecraft, a Brit, supported woman suffrage in her 1792 Vindication. Stanton included the demand for woman suffrage in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, which she read at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848), 15. C (Originally, voting was a privilege that could be limited by such factors as property ownership, condition of servitude, and length of residency. Laws varied greatly by state. In this manner, by 1776 all propertied women in New Jersey could vote, while in the 1840s less than half the men in Rhode Island were enfranchised. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) both defined the vote as a right of citizenship and limited it to men), 16. B (The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised American women. The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted the vote to men regardless of race, though violence, poll taxes, and literacy tests disenfranchised most black southerners until the 1960s. The Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971) lowered the voting age to 18 (it had been 21), 17. C (The National Woman’s Party, which in 1923 launched the fight for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), is a nonpartisan equal rights organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 by the former leaders of the North American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), which led the suffrage movement)

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