Chapter 5 - Lesson 2

Question 1

Who wanted to change the rights of women?

Answer 1

Susan B. Anthony

Question 2

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 2

She went to meetings and gave speeches about treating people fairly.

Question 3

In 1848 who organized a convention?

Answer 3

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Moot and other women.

Question 4

What is a convention?

Answer 4

A large meeting.

Question 5

A large group of people met where?

Answer 5

Seneca Falls, New York. (This was the first time women gathered in public to demand the right to vote.)

Question 6

What is suffrage?

Answer 6

The right to vote.

Question 7

Three years later, In 1851 what did Susan B. Anthony join her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton for?

Answer 7

Th Suffrage movement.

Question 8

What did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton work to form in 1869?

Answer 8

The National American Women Suffrage Association.

Question 9

How long was Susan B. Anthony president of the American Woman Suffrage Movement?

Answer 9

Eight years.

Question 10

In 1870 what was passed?

Answer 10

The fifteenth amendment which gave African American men the right to vote.

Question 11

What happened in 1872?

Answer 11

Susan B. Anthony voted in the president also election, she was fined 100$ and was arrested.

Question 12

When did Susan B. Anthony die?

Answer 12

1906.

Question 13

What happened in 1920?

Answer 13

The nineteenth amendment became law, woman had won the right to vote.

Question 14

What did Thurgood Marshall do?

Answer 14

He worked hard for civil rights

Question 15

What are civil rights?

Answer 15

The rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law.

Question 16

Where did Marshall grow up?

Answer 16

Baltimore, Maryland

Question 17

What does segregated mean?

Answer 17

Separated (usually by race/skin color).

Question 18

What happened in 1954?

Answer 18

All nine Supreme Court Justices voted to end school segregation.

Question 19

Why was Linda brown’s case brought up to the Supreme Court?

Answer 19

Because her father wanted her to attend a white school but the school wouldn’t allow it and the African school was far from them and they would have to cross a dangers railroad track to get there.

Question 20

What was Linda brown’s case called?

Answer 20

Brown versus Board of Education.

Question 21

What happened in 1967?

Answer 21

Lyndon B. Johnson chose Marshall to be the first African American Supreme Court Justice and he served 24 years.

Question 22

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

Answer 22

The First Lady/wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (the president).

Question 23

How long was Franklin D. Roosevelt president?

Answer 23

1933-1945, 12 years.

Question 24

What happened in 1945?

Answer 24

Eleanor Roosevelt was chosen to be the American delegate of the United States.

Question 25

While she was the First Lady what did Eleanor Roosevelt do?

Answer 25

She traveled around the world visiting school children, sick people in hospitals, coal miners and even people in jail.

Question 26

What is a delegate

Answer 26

A person chosen to act for others.

Question 27

What is the U.N

Answer 27

A world group that works for peace.

Question 28

What did Eleanor Roosevelt do in the U.N?

Answer 28

She worked for human rights and helped the group write a bill of rights for all people. IT recognized all people in the world having human rights.

Question 29

What are some Human rights?

Answer 29

The right to be treated equally under the law, the right to own property, and the right to leave their country and return.