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11thgrade
"The Fight for the Right to Vote" Reading Practice Standards: RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.3
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that some men supported the women's suffrage movement?
"Voting rights had been extended to most white men by the early 1800s."
"Some men argued that women should only concern themselves with household and family matters."
"About forty men also attended the convention."
"However, the group split up due to disagreements concerning the Fifteenth Amendment."
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which important idea connects paragraph 5 and paragraph 6?
the cooperation between Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe
the important social changes that resulted from the Civil War
the partnership of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
the disagreement over the rights in the Fifteenth Amendment
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these is the central idea of paragraph 12?
Women were helpful to America during World War I, which broke out in 1914.
Because of World War I, many Americans changed their opinions about women's roles.
After World War I, American women gained the right to vote with an amendment in 1920.
By the end of World War I, the major political parties in America agreed on women's suffrage.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Based on the article, which inference can the reader make about women's voting rights before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed?
Each state determined the voting rights of its women.
In the North and the South, all women had voting rights.
Women never had voting rights anywhere in the nation.
Women had voting rights if they met certain conditions.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which detail from the article best supports the inference or fact that before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, each state determined the voting rights of its women?
"Some men argued that women should concern themselves only with household and family matters."
"If women were citizens, and the Fifteenth Amendment said that citizens had the right to vote, why couldn't women vote?"
"A major breakthrough in the struggle for the vote came in 1890, when Wyoming entered the Union."
"In the late nineteenth century and twentieth century, several states in the West extended voting rights to women."
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