Test your knowledge of the 19th Amendment!

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* 1. Why did gold become the color of the suffrage movement?

Because gold is valuable.

Because the color made suffragists stand out in a crowd.

Because of the Kansas sunflower.

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* 2. The first woman mayor in the United States was in Kansas.

True

False

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* 3. This African American suffragist lived in Lawrence, supported temperance, and had Langston Hughes as one of her students.

Mamie Dillard

Carrie Langston

Eva Jessye

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* 4. Carry Nation was supportive of temperance but not suffrage.

True

False

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* 5. In what year did Kansas women receive full suffrage?

1907

1912

1919

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* 6. What town elected the nation’s first female mayor?

Altoona

Atlanta

Abilene

Argonia

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* 7. What town elected an all-female city council in 1888, the year after Kansas women gained municipal suffrage?

Emporia

Oskaloosa

Dodge City

Fort Scott

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* 8. How many times was universal suffrage — the right to vote for all elected offices — put on the ballot before Kansas men finally approved it?

One

Two

Three

Four

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* 9. The right for women to vote in elections was written into the Kansas state constitution.

True

False

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* 10. Susan B. Anthony came to Kansas to campaign for both female suffrage and black suffrage in 1867.

True

False