Women's rights general knowledge

Question 1

The position of women in the USA 1865-1917

Question 2

Early activism and campaigners - Hull House Chicago

Answer 2

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Question 3

Early activism and campaigners - Women’s Christian temperance union

Answer 3

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Question 4

Early activism and campaigners - National Consumer’s League

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Question 5

Early activism and campaigners - National Women’s Suffrage association

Answer 5

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Question 6

The impact of the campaign for women’s suffrage - the campaign was effective

Answer 6

• Formation of NAWSA - united movementin 1890
• 1915 NAWSA - 100K members
• 1918 20 states gave the right to vote in state elections
• Imprisonment and ill treatment of Alice Paul and her supporters in the radical Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage 1913 (National Women’s Party 1917) won public sympathy for the cause
• 1918 Wilson called for constit. amendment
• 1920 19th amendment passed
• 1916 first female senator (but thats it)

Question 7

The impact of the campaign for women’s suffrage - the campaign was ineffective

Answer 7

• Early suffragist movement divided till 1890 and again in 1913 when Alice Paul’s radical Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage broke away from moderate NAWSA
• Never attracted mass support - appeal almost entirely confined to middle class white women
• Women’s participation in war effort 1917-18 arguably did more to achieve success