USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What political party was the first to support women’s suffrage?
A
Woodrow Wilson’s party
B
Theodore Roosevelt’s party
C
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s party
D
Abraham Lincoln’s party
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1756, Lydia Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony. In a New England town meeting in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, she voted on at least three occasions.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s Up to the Women, by Eleanor Roosevelt, published in 1933. NPS Photo. ER was a latecomer to feminist politics. She did not participate in the woman suffrage movement-although she also did not publicly oppose woman suffrage.

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