14. The House Divided, 1846

Quiz for Analyzing Historical Evidence: Women’s Politics

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

1. How did Jessie Benton Frémont describe her hopes for John C. Frémont’s treatment of the South?

She wished he had been more willing to compromise with the South.

She thought he should have let Kansas become a slave state.

She wanted him to put the South in its place.

She wanted Frémont to sever all ties with the South.

2. What was unusual about Harriot K. Hunt’s occupation?

She was the leader of a small group of suffragettes.

She was put in charge of a local coed university.

She worked for the military.

She was one of a very small number of female physicians.

3. Which of the following was a reason Harriot K. Hunt protested women paying taxes?

Women owned less property than men.

Women had no representation in the government.

Women paid higher tax rates than men.

Their husbands could force them to pay certain taxes.

4. How did Elizabeth Cady Stanton think women’s fashion should change?

Women should dress like men.

Women should be able to wear whatever they liked.

Women should be allowed to wear shorter skirts.

Women should be able to buy their clothes at a store rather than making their clothes themselves.

5. According to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which of the following would be the result of changing women’s fashions?

Women could travel more freely.

Women would work harder in the home.

Men would take women seriously.

Women would have greater access to education.