Quiz: Women’s Voting Rights

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  1. The final state to ratify the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was:
    1. ___X__ Tennessee
    2. _____ Utah
    3. _____ Wyoming
    4. _____ Ohio
  2. The suffrage movement in America split in 1869 over the issue of:
    1. ___X__ giving African-American men the right to vote.
    2. ______ encouraging women to run for office.
    3. ______ endorsing public protests for women’s voting rights.
    4. ______ affiliating with a political party.
  3. Even before the 19th Amendment was ratified, women in some cities in Ohio were allowed to vote:
    1. __X___ in local elections.
    2. _____ statewide elections.
    3. _____ national elections.
    4. _____ if their husbands consented
  4. Ohio was the ______ state to ratify the 19th Amendment in June 1919.
    1. __X___ sixth
    2. ______ first
    3. ______ fourth
    4. ______ tenth
  5. Cincinnati was a stronghold against the 19th Amendment primarily because of its:
    1. ___X___ brewing industry and the fear that women would ban alcohol.
    2. ______ dominant Republican Party officials.
    3. ______ proximity to Kentucky and the South.
    4. ______ German heritage.
Author

Jim DeBrosse is the project editor of Ohio Civics Essential, author of five books, a contributing writer for Cincinnati Magazine, and an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist. Until he retired in 2018, he was a journalism teacher at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. As part of his commitment to social justice, he co-founded a news website devoted to workplace fairness and equal opportunity, "Cincinnatians for the American Dream." He lives in Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood where he volunteers as a tutor at Rothenberg Academy.

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