14. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 14: Reconstruction in South Carolina

**Quiz for Document 14.2: Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage (1870)**

Quiz for Document 14.2: Lottie Rollin, Address on Universal Suffrage (1870)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. In her appeal for universal suffrage, what concession does Lottie Rollin make?

Black men should get the right to vote before women.

White women should get the right to vote before black women.

Women will have to lean on their husbands for advice regarding public affairs.

Women’s place is naturally and primarily in the private sphere of the home.

2. When Lottie Rollin wrote of “woman’s ennobling influence,” she was referring to

women’s greater education, which made them more informed decision makers.

black women’s “natural” propensity for hard physical labor at home and at work.

women’s “natural” domestic and maternal roles, which made them nurturing and orderly.

black women’s efforts to protect themselves from sexual abuse by white men.

3. Rollin’s argument for universal suffrage suggests that women should have the right to vote because they

are fundamentally different from men and in need of privileges to protect themselves.

different from but fully equal to men and entitled to equal rights.

similar and equal to men in all ways and entitled to equal treatment.

different from men in every way and uniquely qualified to influence public life.

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