Deck 2: All Rights Are Not Equal: Suffrage Vs the Equal Rights Amendment

Question 1

The Seneca Falls Convention resulted in the adoption of

A) language for the eventual 19^th Amendment
B) the Women's Declaration of Independence
C) the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
D) a statement in support of the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

C

Question 2

This famous abolitionist was one of the first to connect discrimination to the intersectionality of being black and female.

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Angelina Grimké Weld
D) Frederick Douglass

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The Women's Christian Temperance Union linked the necessity of women's suffrage to

A) the abolishment of slavery
B) stopping child labor
C) ending legal alcohol sales
D) banning marijuana sales

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Supreme Court denied women's claims voting rights granted through citizenship in __________, stating that women might be citizens, but not all citizens can be voters.

A) Minor v. Happersett
B) Leser v. Garnett
C) Martin v. Massachusetts
D) Roe v. Wade

Question 5

Women were activated into a suffrage campaign by __________________.

A) the American Revolution
B) child labor laws
C) the abolition of slavery
D) entry into the Spanish American War

Question 6

One of the key differences between the groups advocating for suffrage (National American Woman Suffrage Association vs. the National Women's Party) was

A) NAWSA only wanted white women to be included in the right to vote.
B) NAWSA advocated a state by state approach, but Alice Paul and NWP wanted a Constitutional amendment
C) The NWP wanted only women to be able to vote for the next 3 Presidential elections to "make up" for previous voting inequality.
D) None of the options are correct

Question 7

Women were asked to begin running for Congress by both parties immediately after suffrage passed.

Question 8

The women's movement and push for the Equal Rights Amendment was driven by

A) the exclusion of women from key civil rights legislation.
B) legislation that specifically limited rights for women.
C) an increase in the number of women serving in the military and Congress.
D) a desire to elect the first woman to Congress

Question 9

Opponents to women's suffrage included the church, the liquor industry, big business, and other women

Question 10

Which women drafted the original Equal Rights Amendment?

A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B) Lucretia Mott
C) Alice Paul
D) Anna Howard Shaw

Question 11

The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified.

Question 12

How many states need to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in order for it to become a part of the US Constitution?

A) 28
B) 35
C) 38
D) 50

Question 13

One method that could be used to revive the ratification efforts for the ERA is

A) the 50-state strategy: get the amendment ratified to all state constitutions
B) to amend the Fourteenth Amendment to include sex/gender as a protected class
C) federal legislation that attaches equality measures to all bills
D) the 3-state strategy: get three more states to ratify the amendment to pass it in the same manner as the Madison Amendment.

Question 14

_________________, which was founded by Phyllis Schlafly, rallied women to fight ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

A) The Extra Responsibilities Amendment Brigade
B) The Eagle Forum
C) The Concerned Women of America
D) The Homemaker's Forum

Question 15

One of the political lessons from suffrage and the ERA is

A) that social norms and attitudes must change before laws can be enacted
B) that campaigns for pro-women laws and amendments need more funding
C) that federal campaigns are more effective than state-to-state
D) that women need to coopt more men to assist in the campaigns

Question 16

The ____________ was the first organization to call for universal suffrage, claiming the right to vote was already implied in the language of citizenship.

Question 17

The ________________, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, advocated for the inclusion of women in the 15th Amendment voting rights.

Question 18

Proponents of the Nineteenth Amendment had to bow to the concerns of the cult of __________, and promote the ideas that the votes of mothers alone could clean up politics.

Question 19

In 1970, the newly formed interest group, _______________, interrupted committee hearings for the right to vote amendment for 18 - 20 years olds to extract promises to hold hearings for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Question 20

The _________ group was a spinoff from the Eagle Forum and was dedicated to stop the state-by-state ratification of the ERA.

Question 21

What were some of the arguments made against voting rights for women?

Question 22

What were some of the arguments made for voting rights for women?

Question 23

What was the black women's club movement?

Question 24

What were some of the arguments made for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Question 25

What were some of the arguments made against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Question 26

What are the two ways that the Equal Rights Amendment could still be ratified?

Question 27

What arguments have ERA proponents made to explain why they feel we still need to pass the ERA?

Question 28

Discuss the main points of one of the three political lessons about gender equality.

Question 29

In Chapter 2 of the textbook, Ford discusses the relationships women's groups have built with other social movements to gain voting rights. Choose any one alliance from the Ford textbook and discuss what women gained from the alliance, the roles women played in both movements, and the eventual outcome for both groups.

Question 30

Compare the tactics and message of the proponents and opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment.