Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage Quiz

Women in the United States were finally granted the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. How much do you know about this important event and the people involved? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Which Southern state was the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, thus ensuring its adoption?
Tennessee
Texas
Arkansas
Alabama

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Which American publication is recognized as the first periodical of the women’s rights movement?
The Una
The Lily
New York Tribune
Harper’s Magazine

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Which suffragist spent 1848 petitioning for women’s right to vote and advocating for married women’s property rights in New York?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anna Howard Shaw
Amelia Bloomer
Alice Paul

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

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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
1901
1832

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Which U.S. state was the first to grant the right to vote to women?
Wyoming
Kansas
New York
Ohio

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Under whose presidency was the 19th amendment ratified?
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt

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Which U.S. political party led a campaign to oust the senators who had voted against the Nineteenth Amendment in 1918?
National Woman’s Party
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Democratic Party
League of Women Voters

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What former slave spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 on behalf of women?
Frederick Douglass
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Hiram R. Revels

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