Quiz  /  Women’s History: Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage

  • 1. 
    Which U.S. state was the first to grant the right to vote to women?

  • Wyoming
  • Ohio
  • New York
  • Kansas

  • 2. 
    What former slave spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 on behalf of women?

  • Frederick Douglass
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Charles Spurgeon Johnson
  • Hiram R. Revels

  • 3. 
    Under whose presidency was the 19th amendment ratified?

  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Warren G. Harding
  • William Howard Taft
  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • 4. 
    In what year was a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote in all elections first presented to the U.S. Congress?

  • 1878
  • 1945
  • 1832
  • 1901

  • 5. 
    This suffragist was imprisoned for infractions ranging from covering sidewalks in Washington, D.C., with chalked messages to organizing a demonstration against U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.

  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Lucy Burns
  • Laura de Force Gordon
  • Lydia Sayer

  • 6. 
    Which suffragist spent 1848 petitioning for women’s right to vote and advocating for married women’s property rights in New York?

  • Alice Paul
  • Anna Howard Shaw
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Amelia Bloomer

  • 7. 
    Which American publication is recognized as the first periodical of the women’s rights movement?

  • The Una
  • New York Tribune
  • The Lily
  • Harper’s Magazine

  • 8. 
    Which Southern state was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, thus ensuring its adoption?

  • Alabama
  • Tennessee
  • Arkansas
  • Texas

  • 9. 
    Which U.S. political party led a campaign to oust the senators who had voted against the Nineteenth Amendment in 1918?

  • Democratic Party
  • League of Women Voters
  • National Woman’s Party
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association
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