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Woman Suffragists in the US

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Introduction:
"As this seems to be a forgotten subject in U.S. history, you may have difficulty with some of the answers."


1. Who founded "The Lily", first woman's suffragist journal, in 1849, but is best remembered for her opinions on woman's fashion?
    Sojourner Truth
    Lucretia Mott
    Amelia Bloomer
    Lucy Stone


2. Which woman was elected the first president of The American Equal Rights Convention in 1866?
    Lucretia Mott
    Harriet Stanton Blatch
    Susan Brownell Anthony
    Anna Howard Shaw


3. Which suffragist leader was the first President of The National Woman's Suffrage Association and is credited by Susan B. Anthony as being the brains behind the movement?
    Lucretia Mott
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Matilda Joslyn Gage
    Abigail Kelley Foster


4. Which woman was arrested for voting in the 1872 elections in Rochester, New York?
    Lucy Stone
    Susan B. Anthony
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Sojourner Truth


5. What women's suffragist was hired to work as Literary Critic for Horace Greeley's "New York Tribune", thus becoming the first woman staff member of a major newspaper?
    Augusta Lewis Troup
    Lucretia Mott
    Margaret Fuller
    Julia Ward Howe


6. Which co-founder of The National Women's Suffrage Association and Missouri native was both the first female graduate of Washington University School of Law and the first female U.S. Marshall?
    Kate Gordon
    Phoebe Couzins
    Augusta Lewis Troup
    Abigail Kelley foster


7. Which suffragist was orphaned as an infant, became a reporter for "The New York Sun" at the age of 18 and eventually was the first woman to hold national union office when she became corresponding secretary of the International Typographical Union?
    Abigail Kelley Foster
    Harriet Stanton Blatch
    Augusta Lewis Troup
    Lucy Stone


8. What suffragist was the first woman nominated for President when the Equal Rights party nominated her in 1872?
    Susan B. Anthony
    Anna Howard Shaw
    Margaret Fuller
    Victoria Woodhull


9. Which sufragette earned a degrees in theology and medicine from Boston University and was giving the Distinguished Service Medal by the US Congress?
    Harriot Stanton Blatch
    Abigail Kelley Foster
    Anna Howard Shaw
    Sojourner Truth


10. Which suffragist founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889 and won The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931?
    Lucy Stone
    Jane Addams
    Edith Starr
    Abigail Kelley Foster


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