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What is suffrage?

The right to vote.

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How were women treated in the colonies? Give an example.

Men and women were not treated equally. Ex: women could not own property or children, women were required to wear uncomfortable clothing, women could not go to school.

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Which woman suffragist voted even though she was not allowed to do so?
Susan B. Anthony
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Who wrote: "Remember the ladies...." and why?
Abigail Adams. She wanted to tell her husband to keep the women in mind when writing the new laws of our country.
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In what year did all women in the United States get the right to vote?
1920
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What does abolitionist mean?
A person who was against slavery.
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What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

A convention planned by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to discuss women's rights and how to achieve women's suffrage.

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Which woman wore loose trousers under a short dress/skirt during a time where women were not permitted to wear pants?
Amelia Bloomer
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Who said: "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should her's. My name is my identity and must not be lost."
Lucy Stone
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How was Alice Paul different from the other suffragists we learned about? Give an example.
She used radical tactics such as leading marches and peacefully protesting. She was also arrested many times which gained more publicity.
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What was the 15th amendment and why was it significant in the women's suffrage movement?
The 15th amendment gave all men the right to vote. It was important because it divided the women's suffrage movement.
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What was the Night of Terror?
It was the night where 33 Silent Sentinels were arrested and beaten for peacefully protesting in front of the White House.
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Who was the speaker/orator at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Who said this: “If the colored men get their rights, and not the colored women…the colored men will be masters over the woman.”
Sojourner Truth
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What was the 13th amendment and what caused its creation?
The 13th amendment made slavery illegal in the United States. It was created after the Civil War.
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What was the 19th amendment and why was it important?
It gave women the right to vote.
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Where did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott meet?
The World Anti-Slavery Convention (1840)
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Name two women suffragists we learned about who were Quakers.

Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Martha Coffin Wright, Alice Paul

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Who said:"I would rather cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for woman."
Susan B. Anthony
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Name one supporter and one opposer of the 15th amendment.

Supporters: Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Frederick Douglass, Wendel Phillips, Frances E. W. Harper

Opposers: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth

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What was one thing stated in the Declaration of Sentiments?
It stated the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention, it held a list of the wrong doings by men to women and it requested equal treatment of men and women under the law and voting rights for women.
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What were and what did the colors of the roses mean during the meeting to decide the ratification of the 19th amendment?
Yellow- supported women's right to vote Red- against women's right to vote
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Which woman suffragist was the only female that made it to her college graduation out of everyone in her class and graduated as valedictorian?
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Who said this: "It was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote."
Alice Paul
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What was the name of the group formed when both sides of suffragists came together?
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)