Rights
This is the author of the book How Fascism Works.
JASON STANLEY
This was the first U.S. State to grant women the right to vote.
WYOMING (The Wyoming Territorial legislature granted women the right to vote in 1869.)
This Supreme Court Justice argued for gender equality before the Supreme Court before getting confirmed to become a Supreme Court Justice.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Susan B. Anthony fired her stenographer because the stenographer refused to take dictation from this person:
*Frederick Douglas
*Elizabeth Cady Stanton
*Ida B. Wells
* Francis Trainer, the wealthy racist man
*Ida B. Wells
This is how long it took the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. to succeed.
72 YEARS From 1848 (Seneca Falls Convention) until 1920
This case, currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, looks at whether it violated a state that had drawn a second majority Black district to promote racial justice in accordance with the Voting Rights Act is in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th and 15th Amendment.
Louisiana v. Callais
This African American man spoke in favor of women’s suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
Which of the following is TRUE about Alice Paul.
* She earned a PhD in Sociology in 1912
* She studied at the London School of Economics
* She worked with militant suffragists in London before coming to the U.S.
* She believe a federal amendment was a better strategy for women’s suffrage than state by state.
ALL
Working class women had good reason to be concerned about workers rights in part because of a 1911 fire that broke out at this location which resulted in 148 dead, most of whom were teenage girls who worked 14 hours a day and didn’t speak English.
The Triangle Shirtwaist
This woman worked for the workers rights for more than 60 years, and was an anarchist, who went to jail after refusing to be silent when a Columbus, Ohio mayor banned her speech.
One officer said about her, “that woman is more to be feared than a thousand rioters.”
LUCY PARSONS
This case established the federal right to abortion based on the right to privacy in 1973.
ROE V. WADE
Women gained the right to vote in 1920 by means of this amendment.
19th
This person wrote the Declaration of Sentiments that became the document at Seneca Falls asking for women’s suffrage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This industry fought against women’s suffrage in the early years.
THE LIQUOR INDUSTRY
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were accused of being racist for not supporting this amendment.
15th
Which of the following are themes discussed in the book How Fascism Works.
*Us. versus them
*Return to Mythic Past
*Saying things that are actually true are “fake news”
*Demonizing immigrants as criminals (Mexicans = rapists)
*All of the above
*All of the above
This woman voted illegally, as a form of civil disobedience, and was fined $100.
Susan B. Anthony
Which of the following was NOT TRUE about Prudence Crandell?
*A white Quaker, she founded a girls’ school.
*When she formed a school for Black girls, some in the community tried to force her school to close by putting manure in her well and denying services to the Black girls she was teaching.
*Connecticut’s Black Laws were aimed at shutting Crandell’s school down.
*Crandell was put on trial
* She was in jail 1 yr.
* She was in jail 1 yr.
She was in jail for one night.
Which of the following was true of the suffrage movement?
A) It used a wide range of tactics such as petitioning, picketing outside of the white house, having a large pageant or street parade in Washington, D.C., hunger strikes after being jailed for protesting
B) The women’s suffrage struggle lasted more than 70 yrs
C) The critical vote making Tennessee the 35th state to ratify the 19th amendment came from a 24-year-old, Febb Burn, who surprised everyone in voting for women’s suffrage because his mother told him to
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
This amendment, originally launched by Alice Paul, never became law because not enough states ratified it by the deadline set by Congress.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
The President of this country, thought to be on a far right fascist, lost his bid for reelection with the opposing candidate getting 2/3 of the vote, despite U.S. backing of the fascist leader.
HUNGARY, VIKTOR ORBAN
This famous speech delivered by Sojourner Truth advocated for women’s suffrage at a conference in Akron, Ohio in 1851.
AIN’T I A WOMAN?
Which is NOT true about Rosa Parks?
*She was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white person.
*She was trained in Civil Disobedience with MLK.
*She attended Highlander, a retreat for activists in Tennessee.
*She was Hispanic.
*She worked on the legal case of a black woman trying to press charges for having been raped.
*She was Hispanic.
She was black.
Which of the following is NOT true about the Seneca Falls Conference?
A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were the organizers
B) This is where Sojourner Truth gave a famous speech
C) Frederick Douglas was the only black person to attend
D) There was a resolution demanding women’s suffrage which was called the Declaration of Sentiments.
E) It happened in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY
G) It is said to be the launch of women’s suffrage in the U.S.
B) This is where Sojourner Truth gave a famous speech
Which white abolitionist sisters were known for connecting women's inequality to slavery?
SARAH & ANGELINA GRIMKE