Chapter 21

Quiz for Document 21-2: Carrie Chapman Catt, Passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment (1918)

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Question 1

In her 1918 essay Passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment, Carrie Chapman Catt attributes the new support for woman suffrage in America to what factor?A. Women’s influence in the temperance movement
B. American involvement in World War I
C. The central role women played as progressive reformers
D. The long dedication of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Question 2

When Catt states that disloyal “alien” men had been allowed the vote but not patriotic women, she is reflecting views associated withA. anarchism.
B. nativism.
C. progressivism.
D. socialism.

Question 3

What, according to Catt, would be the “last task of the suffragists?”A. Ensuring the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
B. Fighting against Jim Crow laws
C. Returning women to their place in the domestic realm
D. Sending women to the national legislature

Question 4

Catt contrasts women’s suffrage to all previous expansions of the franchise by emphasizing the change it would bring to all of public life through the application ofA. moral discipline.
B. progressive ideals.
C. the “woman spirit.”
D. true democracy.