Which of the Following Statements Accurately Describes the Women's Suffrage

question 8

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements accurately describes the women's suffrage movement during the Progressive Era?

• A) The movement was successful not only in bringing the women's vote to all states in the matter of a year but also in staying free of social and ethnic prejudices.
• B) Rather than being concerned with matters of federal law or directing attention toward the government, the movement focused on businesses' treatment of women workers.
• C) Suffrage activists varied in their motivations and approaches, such as the range of issues they were willing to raise along with the women's vote.
• D) African American women tended to be the leaders of suffrage organizations because the civil rights movement had erupted and made the two issues inseparable.
• E) Since the Gilded Age had brought the right to vote to affluent women, suffragists used the energy of the Progressive Era to campaign to extend this right to women of all classes.

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