Women's Suffrage Quiz

Women Suffrage

right for women to vote in elections

Alice Paul

suffragists who helped pressure Wilson for amendment and organized a hunger strike while in prision

Silent Sentinels

suffragists protesting outside White House

Congressional Union purpose

lobbying congress

Lucy Burns

arrested for protesting for women’s suffrage, helped found NWP, and built support for amendment through actions that would gain national publicity

Inez Milholland

known for dressing in White dress/crown and riding on white horse during Suffrage Parade, she campaigned for pacifism during WWI, and she died giving a speech for suffrage and became a martyr

Ruza Wenclawska

Polish immigrant who was a member of various suffragist organizations and participated in hunger strikes while in prison

Carrie Chapman Catt

member of Iowa Women Suffrage Association, and later founded NAWSA

Ida B. Wells

help found the National Association of Colored Women and went against lynching

Frances Willard

female suffragist and apart of the Temperance movement

Susan B. Anthony

arrested for voting for president and help found NAWSA, and is credited a lot for the suffrage movement

Seneca Falls

1st Woman Conference, organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and there they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and resolution grievances

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention, and helped found NAWSA

Lucy Stone

first woman to earn a college degree and helped organize the American Woman’s Suffrage Association

Phoebe Burns

told her son to vote for suffrage, which lead to the law being passed

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

led to reform in workplace safety and also led to more support for suffrage movement because workers and businessmen were now involved

Temperance relation to Suffrage

a lot of the members of the suffrage movement were in Temperance

NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

state-by-state approach, older generation of suffragists, larger membership

NWP (National Women’s Party)

federal approach, newer generation, more public affect, most members are old NAWSA

Constitutional Amendment Ratification Process

A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states

Wilson view on suffrage

did not support it in the beginning but changed his view later in support

Why did Woodrow Wilson’s opinion of suffrage change?

he was a Democrat and the NWP and women around the country refused to vote Democrat if he did not support it

Colors of Suffrage

Purple, yellow, and white

Who was 1st state to allow women’s suffrage?

Wyoming

Sojourner Truth

ex-slave, abolitionist, suffragist and famous for “Ain’t I A Woman” speech