Author Question: During the Civil War, women's rights activists A) temporarily secured the vote for women, who ... (Read 118 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

During the Civil War, women's rights activists

A) temporarily secured the vote for women, who would cast ballots for absent soldier-husbands.
B) suspended their movement for suffrage out of respect for the war.
C) hoped that their wartime service would be rewarded with greater equality, especially the right to vote.
D) fought for salaries and pensions for wartime nurses and other volunteers.
E) None of these choices

Question 2

Which statement accurately describes why that state refused to join the Confederacy?

A) Delaware was mainly a nonslaveholding state that had no desire to be part of a slave Confederacy.
B) Missouri's citizens were united in their loyalty to the Union and in their belief that an independent slave confederacy could not survive.
C) Virginia's nonslaveholding eastern part of the state refused to secede with the western partwhich named itself West Virginia when it joined the Confederacy.
D) Maryland's popular politician, Hannibal Hamlin, had just been elected vice president.
E) Kentucky had a Unionist legislature whose resolve was strengthened by the presence of Grant's troops across the river in Illinois.