Video Quiz

1. What made me [Susan B. Anthony] so important that a commerative silver dollar was made in my honor?

2. What were bloomers?

3. Was it legal for women to vote 150 years ago?

4. Why do you think women were not allowed to vote in the past?

5. What does the 15th Amendment say?

6. Why did I [Susan B. Anthony] want to go to jail?

7. What was the judge's decision at my trial in 1872?

8. What is the 19th Amendment?

9. What happened 100 years after my birth-in the year 1920?

10. What do you think it was like to be a woman in the 1870s?

1. How do you think the 14th and 15th Amendments were used to prove that women already had the right ot vote?

2. Do you remember when the librarian said , "The victory is not in winning the race, but in running the course?" What do you think he meant by that?

1. Who was Susan B. Anthony?

2. What was the lesson Angie learned?

3. What does it mean to vote?

1. More than any other person she helped to bring attention to the need for women to vote in elections in our country.
2. Bloomers are a woman's attire of loose trousers gathered at the knee.
3. No. See the section on "The Suffrage Movement" for more discussion.
4. Answers will vary. In general, the social structure and social attitudes considered politics to be an area in which women did not participate.
5. The right to vote in the United States cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude [slavery].
6. If Susan B. Anthony went to jail, she could then appeal her case to a higher court.
7. The judge said she would be fined $100.
8. This amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied because of gender. See the section on "Constitutional Amendments" for more discussion.
9. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, granting women to right to vote.
10. Answers will vary. The tendency may be for students to stress the negative aspects of a lack of suffrage and property rights. However, it is also important to note that women worked hard to help build a new nation and a new frontier.

1. The 14th Amendment made former slaves citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived, but it also ensured citizenship for women born in the United States. Because the 15th Amendment gave citizens the right to vote, Susan B. Anthony believed that women should also have the right to vote. See the section on "Constitutional Amendments."
2. Answers will vary. In general, however, it says that winning is not always important. We must continue to fight the "good fight." That is, we must continue to fight for things that are right even though we do not always get them.

1. She helped women gain the right to vote in elections in our country.
2. She learned to have hope. She learned to keep fighting even when bad things happened.
3. It means to elect our leaders and to have a say in how we are governed.