Susan B Anthony — Questions and answers

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What did Susan B. Anthony do on November 5, 1872, to challenge unjust laws?

Choices

  1. She wrote a letter to the newspaper.
  2. She gave a speech about women's rights.
  3. She cast a vote in an election. ✓
  4. She started a new political party.

Answer: She cast a vote in an election.

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What did Susan B. Anthony's father tell her to study to find arguments for true equality?

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  1. A book of famous speeches
  2. The U.S. Constitution ✓
  3. A history book about women
  4. A book about Quaker beliefs

Answer: The U.S. Constitution

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Who did Susan B. Anthony meet in 1851, forming a powerful partnership for women's rights?

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  1. Frederick Douglass
  2. Matilda Joslyn Gage
  3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ✓
  4. Ulysses S. Grant

Answer: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Why did Susan B. Anthony found the first Women's State Temperance Society?

Choices

  1. She wanted to sell temperance books.
  2. She was denied the right to speak at rallies because she was a woman. ✓
  3. She believed women were better at making speeches.
  4. She wanted to stop all men from speaking in public.

Answer: She was denied the right to speak at rallies because she was a woman.

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Why did a 'painful division' happen in the suffrage movement after the Civil War?

Choices

  1. Susan B. Anthony wanted to stop voting altogether.
  2. Allies disagreed on who should get voting rights first. ✓
  3. Everyone wanted the Civil War to continue.
  4. Frederick Douglass wanted women to vote before Black men.

Answer: Allies disagreed on who should get voting rights first.

From page 5

What was the motto of The Revolution newspaper that Susan B. Anthony helped launch?

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  1. "All for one, and one for all!"
  2. "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less!" ✓
  3. "Change the world, one newspaper at a time!"
  4. "The voice of the people is the voice of progress!"

Answer: "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less!"

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What was the main idea of the 'New Departure' strategy?

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  1. To write a brand new U.S. Constitution.
  2. To ask men to give women the right to vote.
  3. To argue that the 14th Amendment already gave women the right to vote. ✓
  4. To celebrate American independence with a parade.

Answer: To argue that the 14th Amendment already gave women the right to vote.

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What happened to Susan B. Anthony three weeks after she voted?

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  1. She was elected to public office.
  2. She became a newspaper editor.
  3. Federal marshals arrested her. ✓
  4. She went on a long vacation.

Answer: Federal marshals arrested her.

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What did Susan B. Anthony say she would never do after her trial?

Choices

  1. Stop fighting for women's rights.
  2. Speak in public again.
  3. Pay the unjust penalty. ✓
  4. Study the Constitution anymore.

Answer: Pay the unjust penalty.

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Did Susan B. Anthony live to see the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, become law?

Choices

  1. Yes, she lived to celebrate its passage.
  2. No, it was ratified 14 years after she died. ✓
  3. She saw it being written, but not passed.
  4. She only heard about it from others.

Answer: No, it was ratified 14 years after she died.

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