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Questions

1. When and where did the suffrage movement begin?

2. Why did the amendment following the Civil War allowing African-American men to vote cause tension with woman suffragettes? Why did many consider Stanton and Anthony racist?

3. Why was Susan B. Anthony arrested? Why wasn't Anthony allowed to be a witness at her own trial?

4. What state or territory was the first to grant its women the right to vote? Why do you think the West was more likely to accept woman suffrage?

5. Who was the outspoken leader of the African American Club Movement (suffrage group)? Why did white suffragist "abandon" their black female suffragettes?

6. Why would some businessmen, other than liquor store owners, be against woman suffrage?

7. Why was the South so resistant to woman suffrage?

8. What did Alice Paul convince many women of doing outside the White House during WWI? Why were so many women arrested and what was the charge?

9. What was Alice Paul's sentence? How did she respond to the treatment they received in prison?

10. Provide the amendment number and year that the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was ratified.