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Quiz for Document 12–4: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did the writers of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments consider married women civilly dead?

The drudgery of housework prevented married women from political engagement.

Marriage forced women to surrender their careers and stay in the home.

Marriage annulled the right to vote that unmarried but propertied women enjoyed.

The covenant of marriage made the husband a virtual master.

2. Which of the following was a way the writers believed men exercised “absolute tyranny” over women?

Deprived them of the right to vote

Physically abused their wives and daughters

Forced their wives to work in new factories

Allowed them in public only when escorted by a male family member

3. What was the role of religion in keeping women inferior in society?

Women were not allowed to choose their own religion.

It taught that women should only be mothers.

Men used its moral codes and dictates to exclude women.

Women were not allowed to read religious texts.

4. According to the writers, how could the problems women faced in society be resolved?

By proposing a new amendment to the Constitution to protect women

By educating men on the rights of women

By doing away with laws that restricted the rights of women

By rejecting religions that taught that women were inferior