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Which of the following best describes the interrelationship between Lucretia Coffin Mott's Quaker beliefs and her activism?
Which of the following best describes the interrelationship between Lucretia Coffin Mott's Quaker beliefs and her activism?
- Her interpretation of Quakerism allowed her to reconcile her faith with active participation in civil rights, viewing it as consistent with her beliefs. (correct)
- Her Quaker beliefs were a direct inspiration for her civil rights work, providing a theological basis for equality.
- Her Quaker beliefs directly contradicted her involvement in civil rights battles, causing internal conflict.
- Her civil rights activism led her to abandon her Quaker beliefs, viewing them as incompatible with social justice.
What was the significance of Susan Brownell Anthony choosing the phrase "Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less" as the masthead of The Revolution?
What was the significance of Susan Brownell Anthony choosing the phrase "Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less" as the masthead of The Revolution?
- It expressed a desire for women to have more rights than men.
- It reflected her belief that women's suffrage would only be achieved through the support of male allies.
- It signaled a shift in her strategy towards focusing solely on the rights of men.
- It underscored her commitment to achieving full equality between men and women. (correct)
How did Julia Howard Howe interpret the act of voting in relation to societal injustice?
How did Julia Howard Howe interpret the act of voting in relation to societal injustice?
- She considered voting as a tool for women to challenge and dismantle oppressive systems. (correct)
- She believed voting was primarily a symbolic act with limited practical impact on societal issues.
- She saw voting as a distraction from more pressing issues, such as economic inequality and education reform.
- She viewed voting as a means to reinforce existing social hierarchies and power structures.
How did Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rallying cry, "The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will," influence the women's suffrage movement?
How did Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rallying cry, "The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will," influence the women's suffrage movement?
What is the significance behind Lucy Stone's quote, "Leave women, then, to find their sphere?"
What is the significance behind Lucy Stone's quote, "Leave women, then, to find their sphere?"
What was Sojourner Truth referring to when she stated, "You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway?"
What was Sojourner Truth referring to when she stated, "You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway?"
What prompted Isabella Beecher Hooker to ask, "Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person is a citizen?"
What prompted Isabella Beecher Hooker to ask, "Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person is a citizen?"
How did suffragists such as Frances Willard broaden the appeal of the movement, and what potential drawback did this strategy present?
How did suffragists such as Frances Willard broaden the appeal of the movement, and what potential drawback did this strategy present?
What common thread connected the efforts of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell in advancing the cause of suffrage?
What common thread connected the efforts of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell in advancing the cause of suffrage?
Analyze the contrasting approaches of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt in advocating for women's suffrage. Which statement best describes their differences?
Analyze the contrasting approaches of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt in advocating for women's suffrage. Which statement best describes their differences?
Lucy Burns and Jeanette Rankin both utilized direct appeals to political figures. Which of the following statements accurately contrasts their approaches?
Lucy Burns and Jeanette Rankin both utilized direct appeals to political figures. Which of the following statements accurately contrasts their approaches?
Consider the slogan 'Lifting as we climb' used by Mary Church Terrell. What broader implication did this phrase carry for the suffrage movement?
Consider the slogan 'Lifting as we climb' used by Mary Church Terrell. What broader implication did this phrase carry for the suffrage movement?
Analyze the symbolic meaning behind Anna Howard Shaw's statement, 'In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass.' What core principle does this reveal about her vision for democracy?
Analyze the symbolic meaning behind Anna Howard Shaw's statement, 'In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass.' What core principle does this reveal about her vision for democracy?
How did publications like 'The Woman's Journal' and 'The Provincial Freeman' primarily contribute to the women's suffrage movement?
How did publications like 'The Woman's Journal' and 'The Provincial Freeman' primarily contribute to the women's suffrage movement?
What was a significant difference in the focus of activism between suffragists like Mary Ann Shadd Cary and those like Lucretia Coffin Mott?
What was a significant difference in the focus of activism between suffragists like Mary Ann Shadd Cary and those like Lucretia Coffin Mott?
What underlying connection can be drawn between the Quaker religion and support for the women's suffrage movement among suffragists?
What underlying connection can be drawn between the Quaker religion and support for the women's suffrage movement among suffragists?
Considering the diverse backgrounds of suffragists, what common thread connected women like Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, and Isabella Beecher Hooker in their fight for women's rights?
Considering the diverse backgrounds of suffragists, what common thread connected women like Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, and Isabella Beecher Hooker in their fight for women's rights?
Susan B. Anthony co-edited 'The Revolution' with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. What does this collaboration suggest about the strategies employed by suffragists?
Susan B. Anthony co-edited 'The Revolution' with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. What does this collaboration suggest about the strategies employed by suffragists?
How did activism in movements such as Abolition and Temperance influence the strategies and goals of the women's suffrage movement?
How did activism in movements such as Abolition and Temperance influence the strategies and goals of the women's suffrage movement?
Considering the activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker, what does her focus on women owning property in her state suggest about the broader goals of the suffrage movement?
Considering the activism of Isabella Beecher Hooker, what does her focus on women owning property in her state suggest about the broader goals of the suffrage movement?
The publication 'The National Citizen and Ballot Box' ran from 1878 to 1881. What does the name of this publication imply about the strategies of suffragists at the time?
The publication 'The National Citizen and Ballot Box' ran from 1878 to 1881. What does the name of this publication imply about the strategies of suffragists at the time?
How might the activism of Sojourner Truth, an African American woman of unknown religious affiliation, and her contributions to both the abolition and women's rights movements, highlight the complexity of the suffrage movement?
How might the activism of Sojourner Truth, an African American woman of unknown religious affiliation, and her contributions to both the abolition and women's rights movements, highlight the complexity of the suffrage movement?
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Quaker's View on Civil Rights
Quaker's View on Civil Rights
Quakers held civil rights battles were not against their beliefs because they did not equate to quietism.
"I am no advocate of passivity."
"I am no advocate of passivity."
Lucretia Coffin Mott's quote emphasizing active participation in civil rights.
"Women will get their rights anyway."
"Women will get their rights anyway."
Sojourner Truth's defiant statement to a booing audience, indicating the eventual victory of women's rights.
"Bloody feet, sisters..."
"Bloody feet, sisters..."
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"The right is ours..."
"The right is ours..."
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"Leave women, then..."
"Leave women, then..."
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Voting as protest
Voting as protest
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"Men, their rights..."
"Men, their rights..."
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Lucretia Coffin Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
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Abby Kelly Foster
Abby Kelly Foster
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone
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Julia Howard Howe
Julia Howard Howe
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Susan Brownell Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony
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Isabella Beecher Hooker
Isabella Beecher Hooker
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage
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Mary Ann's Belief
Mary Ann's Belief
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Matilda Joslyn Gage Quote
Matilda Joslyn Gage Quote
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Frances Willard's Quote
Frances Willard's Quote
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Anna Howard Shaw's View
Anna Howard Shaw's View
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Carrie Chapman Catt's Slogan
Carrie Chapman Catt's Slogan
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett's View
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Lucy Burns' Question to Wilson
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Alice Paul Impact
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Study Notes
- Summary of Suffragists, Publications, and Activism
Lucretia Coffin Mott
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a teacher.
- Of white ancestry, from the Island of Nantucket, MA.
- Practiced in her religion as a Quaker.
- Supported the Abolition movement
Sojourner Truth
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Was enslaved but had no academic schooling, but spoke Dutch and English.
- Her parents passed down stories of family history and the Bible.
- Of Afro-American ancestry from New Paltz, NY.
- Her religion is unknown
- Supported the Abolition movement
Abby Kelly Foster
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a teacher and lecturer.
- Of white ancestry from Pelham, A.
- Practiced in her religion as a Quaker.
- Supported the Abolition movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a teacher and writer.
- Her ancestry is unknown.
- Her religion is unknown
- Supported Women's Rights (other than to vote)
Lucy Stone
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Published The Woman's Journal, funded by Lucy Stone and edited by Julia.
- Worked as a teacher.
- Of white ancestry from MA.
- Her religion is unkknown
- Supported the Abolition movement
Julia Howard Howe
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a playwright and editor.
- Of white ancestry from NYC.
- Religion unknown.
- Advocated for Women's Rights (other than to vote)
Susan Brownell Anthony
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Published a newspaper on slavery and women's rights as a publisher.
- Published "The Revolution Magazine" as a co-editor with Elizabeth & Parker Pillsburry
- Worked as a teacher.
- Of white ancestry from Western NY.
- Practiced in her religion as a Quaker.
- Supported Temperance, Anti-Slavery, and Women's Rights movements
Isabella Beecher Hooker
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a plain housewife.
- Of white ancestry from CT.
- Practiced Spiritualism in CT.
- Fought for women to own property in her State
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Published the Provinvial Freeman for the Black community to awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a Teacher
- Of Afro-American Ancestry from DE
- Religion unkown.
- Supported the Social condition of the Black community and fought againt the Fugitive Slave Act Deportation.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Published to awaken the public about women's rights and suffrage.
- Published The Nat'l Citizen & Ballot Box from 1878 to 1881 with the motto "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword."
- In 1883 She wrote her legacy a book: Woman, Church & State.
- Worked as a publisher and newspaper editor.
- Of white ancestry from Fayetteville, NY.
- She was "anti religion" and supported Abolitionist feelings and Temperance
Frances Willard
- To awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage she published "Wheel Within a Wheel", a best selling encouraging women to hit the road.
- Worked as a teacher and Public Speaker
- Of white ancestry from IL.
- Practiced in her religion as a Christian
- Supported the Temperance movement
Anna Howard Shaw
- To awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage.
- Worked as a Methodist Minister and Doctorate in Medicine
- Of white ancestry from MI
- Practiced in her religion as a Methodist and supported the Temperance movement
Carrie Chapman Catt
- To awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage by publishing "The Origin of Species" book which covers moral and intellectual ways, becoming higher beings), inspired Carrie
- Worked as a Principal and co-editor of her husband's publishing, journalist
- Of white ancestry from Al
- Supported Women's Rights to vote locally
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- To awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage published "The Memphis Free Speech & Headlight."
- Worked as a Publisher & Co-editor
- Of Afro-American & part Native American ancestry, father was white from TN
- Slaves were freed but there was racial descrimination, fought the ill treatment to the black. Was a
- Pioneer of the modern civil rights and education reform
Lucy Burns
- Of white ancestry from NY
Jeanette Rankin
- Worked as a Teacher, Social Worker
- Of white ancestry from MT
Adelina Otero-Warren
- Worked as a Socialite
- Of White/Hispanic ancestry from Albuquerque, NM
- Practiced in her religion as a Roman Catholic.
Alice Paul
- To awaken the public on the subject of women's rights and suffrage
- Published A book that argues women's low status was due to a lack of education: A Vindication of the Rights of Women book.
- Worked as a Social Worker
- Of Whie ancestry from NJ
- Practiced in her religion as a Quaker.
Chapter Titles and Context in the Fight for Women's Suffrage
- Lucretia Coffin Mott: I am no advocate of passivity.
- Civil rights battles weren't considered war; Mott was not against the beliefs of Quakers.
- Civil battle was not against quakerism because it does not mean quietism.
- Sojourner Truth: You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway.
- Speaks to a hostile audience, Truth says women will get their rights regardless of opposition.
- Abby Kelly Foster: Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you come up hither.
- Reminds audience of the bravery of women, echoing Foster's sentiment of seeking truth over harmony.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The right is ours, have it we must, use it, we will.
- A rallying cry for the women's vote movement.
- Lucy Stone: Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
- Stone fought for women's right to take whatever place she chose in society.
- Julia Howard Howe: Make your protest against tyranny, meanness, and injustice.
- Howe saw the vote as a way to break free of societal injustice.
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Men, their rights, & nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less.
- The title of the chapter is the masthead of The Revolution, a suffrage magazine.
- Isabella Beecher Hooker: Can anything be plainer than that a woman, being a person is a citizen?
- In 1871, she urged everyone to agree that the constitution's word of "people" already included the women the right to vote.
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Who shall overrule the voice of a woman?
- Cary believed that black women should have leadership roles, so she pushed for voting rights.
- Matilda Joslyn Gage: The soul must assert its own supremary or die.
- Encouragment to the next generation to continue seeking the right to vote and take their rightful place.
- Frances Willard: The guns are ballots and the bullets are ideas.
- Willard saw voting as a means to other ends, especially "home protection."
- Anna Howard Shaw: In the people's voice there is a soprano as well as a bass.
- Democracy mandates full equality.
- Carrie Chapman Catt: We women demand an equal voice, we shall accept nothing less.
- Adapted as a slogan when she promoted world suffrage.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett: The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
- A fight, Wells-Barnett saw voting rights as essential to fight against racial injustice.
- Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as we climb, onward & upward we go.
- Women's vote could reform cruel labor practices.
- Lucy Burns: Mr. president, what will you do for woman suffrage?
- Burns posed the question to Wilson with a banner at his annual Congress address.
- Jeanette Rankin: How shall we answer their challenge gentlemen?
- Rankin challenged Congress about the justice of suffrage.
- Adelina Otero-Warren: We will win.
- Telegrammed to Alice Paul after New Mexico finally voted on the 19th amendment in Feb 1920.
- Alice Paul: Votes for women.
- Success would have been delayed for many years to come, had it not been for Alice Paul and Lucy Burns' militant activism.
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Explore the lives and words of key figures in the women's suffrage movement, including Lucretia Coffin Mott, Abby Kelly Foster, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Howard Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth and Isabella Beecher Hooker. Examine the arguments and philosophies that propelled the fight for women's rights.
