individuals

Question 1

Rural and Urban political involvement

Elizabeth Lease

Answer 1

(well known Orator for Populist Party) led protests e.g. against railways in Kansas despite bitter opposition from business interests

Question 2

suffrage organisations

Susan B Anthony

Answer 2

deeply opposed to slavery
founded temperance society in 1852 (with Stanton)
joint founder of NSWA in 1869
led united suffrage movement after 1890 as head of new NAWSA
gained notoriety for her arrest in attempting to vote in 1872

Question 3

suffrage organisations

Lucy Stone

Answer 3

abolitionist and campaigner for women’s rights.
urged equal pay, refused to pay taxes as she was not represented in congress
founded AERA and broke with Stanton leaving women’s movement disunited until 1890

Question 4

suffrage organisations

Julia Ward Howe

Answer 4

led AWSA (with Lucy Stone)
famous literary figure from book of poems about unhappy marriage
traveled USA and the world lecturing on women’s rights and other reforms including world peace, prison improvement and education

Question 5

impact of ww1

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 5

led woman suffrage Association in 1890s
addressed congress on women’s rights
Susan B Anthony’s successor - president of NAWSA in 1900
effective at gaining support for women’s suffrage at state level
support for war in 1917 helped persuade Congress to pass 19th amendment

Question 6

New Deal

Elanor Roosevelt

Answer 6

Roosevelts wife
leading supporter of New deal, womens rights and those of african and asian americans
first chair of the United Nation Commission for Human Rights
pushed for more women in public office

Question 7

Ella baker

Answer 7

AA woman
highly influential campaigner for civil rights
grass roots organiser
part of the NAACP SCLC and SNCC
one of the most important civil rights leaders