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Chloeellawright · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

What women's rights activist first persuaded a U. S. California senator to introduce a constitutional amendment calling for the right of women to vote?

A) Elizabeth Blackwell
B) Betty Friedan
C) Carrie Nation
D) Susan B. Anthony
E) Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 2

Why did the women's suffrage movement aim at a constitutional amendment?

A) State legislatures consistently opposed efforts to grant the right to vote to women.
B) The Supreme Court ruled against efforts to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to women.
C) Ordinary legislation that Congress had passed had proved ineffective.
D) The experience of African Americans showed that only a constitutional amendment could quickly and effectively guarantee the right to vote.
E) An amendment was perceived as the easiest path to equal rights.