Part 5

Quiz for Document P5-1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)

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Question 1

The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments presented at the 1848 convention at Seneca Falls, New York was structurally modeled after theA. Declaration of Independence of 1776.
B. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789.
C. Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen of 1791.
D. United States Constitution of 1789.

Question 2

The list of abuses Thomas Jefferson attributed in the Declaration of Independence to King George III of Great Britain are attributed by Stanton in the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments toA. men.
B. President James K. Polk.
C. the U.S. Congress.
D. Whig political leaders.

Question 3

Claiming that governments derive their just powers from the “consent of the governed,” Stanton is referencing the natural rights ideas of English philosopherA. Edmund Burke.
B. John Locke.
C. Richard Hooker.
D. Thomas Hobbes.

Question 4

According to the Declaration, the “inalienable right” to which women were entitled, and from which all other rights would proceed, was the right toA. divorce.
B. equal pay.
C. enfranchisement.
D. property.