USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE WOMENS MOVEMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ believed men and women were created equal and that women should be given the same rights as men.
A
The Suffrage Movement
B
The Abolition Movement
C
The Women’s Power Movement
D
The Citizen’s Rights Movement
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -When Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal, ” he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.

Detailed explanation-2: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The leaders of this campaign-women like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells-did not always agree with one another, but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention regarding women’s rights in the United States. Called the Seneca Falls Convention, the event in Seneca Falls, New York, drew over 300 people, mostly women.

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