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Women's Suffrage and the Media: The Role of Press and Propaganda

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge about the role of the press and propaganda in the women's suffrage movement.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which newspaper was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1870 to promote women's suffrage?

  1. The Revolution
  2. The Suffragist
  3. The Woman's Journal
  4. The National Woman Suffrage Association
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the first women's suffrage newspaper published in the United States?

  1. The Lily
  2. The Una
  3. The Suffragist
  4. The Woman's Journal
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American author and journalist was a strong supporter of women's suffrage and wrote extensively about the movement?

  1. Mark Twain
  2. Henry David Thoreau
  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  4. Louisa May Alcott
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the organization founded in 1890 by Carrie Chapman Catt and other suffragists to promote women's suffrage on a national level?

  1. The National Woman Suffrage Association
  2. The American Woman Suffrage Association
  3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  4. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which president of the United States signed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote?

  1. Woodrow Wilson
  2. Theodore Roosevelt
  3. William Howard Taft
  4. Warren G. Harding
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the propaganda film produced by the National Woman's Party in 1916 to promote women's suffrage?

  1. The Militant Suffragists
  2. The Silent Sentinels
  3. The Woman's Hour
  4. The Great Awakening
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American artist created a series of posters for the National Woman's Party to promote women's suffrage?

  1. Norman Rockwell
  2. Thomas Hart Benton
  3. Grant Wood
  4. N.C. Wyeth
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the weekly newspaper published by the National Woman's Party from 1917 to 1920?

  1. The Suffragist
  2. The Woman's Journal
  3. The National Woman Suffrage Association Bulletin
  4. The New Republic
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American journalist and author was a strong opponent of women's suffrage and wrote extensively against the movement?

  1. H.L. Mencken
  2. Dorothy Parker
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. Ernest Hemingway
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the organization founded in 1873 by Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin to promote women's suffrage and other social reforms?

  1. The National Woman Suffrage Association
  2. The American Woman Suffrage Association
  3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  4. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American suffragist was arrested and imprisoned for picketing the White House in 1917?

  1. Alice Paul
  2. Carrie Chapman Catt
  3. Anna Howard Shaw
  4. Lucy Stone
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the organization founded in 1893 by Frances Willard to promote women's suffrage and other social reforms?

  1. The National Woman Suffrage Association
  2. The American Woman Suffrage Association
  3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  4. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American suffragist was the first woman to run for president of the United States?

  1. Victoria Woodhull
  2. Belva Lockwood
  3. Susan B. Anthony
  4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the name of the organization founded in 1869 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to promote women's suffrage?

  1. The National Woman Suffrage Association
  2. The American Woman Suffrage Association
  3. The National American Woman Suffrage Association
  4. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous American suffragist was known as the "Mother of Suffrage"?

  1. Susan B. Anthony
  2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  3. Carrie Chapman Catt
  4. Anna Howard Shaw
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