Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage"
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Read the passage Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage". Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage". Then answer the questions below.
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What is the primary purpose of this speech?
to argue the $100 fine for illegally voting was unfair
to prove women are people and deserve the same voting rights as men
to confess to the crime of voting in the presidential election
to urge Black Americans to exercise their right to vote
What reasons did Susan B. Anthony use to support women's suffrage? Select two correct answers.
because fining women is illegal
because the Preamble gives rights to all people
because women are citizens
because women were previously given the right to vote in the Constitution
because states have the right to enforce their own laws
Drag each quotation from the source into the correct box based on whether the statement is a fact or an opinion.
"To them this government is not a democracy."
I stand before you tonight under indictment for the supposed crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote
"It is not a republic. It is a hateful aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe"
"Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office."