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Section 41
Practice Test One
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Questions I 0-19 are based on the following passage.
The following excerpt discusses the contributions of Susan
B. Anthony (1820-1906), a political advocate fo r temperance,
education reform, the abolition of slavery, andmost
fa mously-women's civil rights.
When Susan B. Anthony, a tireless worker for
temperance, was refused the right to speak at an
1853 Sons of Temperance convention because
Line she was a woman, she left the meeting and called
(5) her own. A lifetime of accumulated frustration at
not being listened to simply because of her gender
had come to a head. She and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton founded the Women's State Temperance
Association that year, and delivered a petition
(10) containing over 28,000 signatures to the Ne':' .
y ork State legislature in order to pass a law limiting
the sale of alcohol. The legislature rejected it
because most of the signatures were from women
and children. Anthony knew that women needed
( 15) the power to vote in order for their views ever to
be taken seriously by politicians.
Anthony had been introduced in a significant
way to the women's suffrage movement in 1851.
She wrote pro-temperance articles for the nation's
(20) first woman-owned periodical, the Lily, and
became aquainted with the paper's editor, Amelia
Bloomer. Bloomer introduced her to Elizabeth
Stanton, and the two women formed a friendship
and political alliance that lasted the rest of their
(25) lives. From this point on, Anthony and Stanton
worked ceaselessly together in support of women's
rights. Anthony lectured, traveled, and organized
conventions on the topic, while Stanton wrote
speeches and articles and generated ideas for the
(30) two of them to promote. They collected signatures
for a petition to grant women the right to vote
and own property, and in 1860 their work was
rewarded in the New York legislature with the
Married Women's Property Act, which allowed
(35) some women to own property and enter into legal
contracts.
Throughout this work, Anthony became widely
recognized as the face of the women's rights
movement. She also began to receive unwelcome
(40) attention. Male columnists from antisuffrage
papers mocked her cruelly. She was confronted
by armed mobs and received threats of physical
harm from those whose politics were threatened
by her own. The prevailing tactic of her opponents
( 45) was to ridicule her unladylike attempts at insisting
that the minds of women and men were no different.
Political cartoons from the day put Anthony
and Stanton side by side with George Washington,
or showed members of the women's suffrage
(50) movement crossing the Delaware in grandiose
fashion, in order to make fun of their supposed
self-importance. (Ironically, of course, modern
viewers looking at these cartoons can't figure out
what the joke is. In this century's perception, put-
(55) ting Susan B. Anthony next to a great figure like
George Washington seems hardly inappropriate.)
Despite all her enemies, though, Anthony had a
fair complement of influential allies in civil rights
circles and managed to win the respect and admira-
( 60) ti on of some, if not a majority, of the public.
With the support of such like-minded folks as
Stanton, Bloomer, and Frederick Douglass (an
escaped slave who became a publisher and campaigned
vociferously and successfully for the aboli-
(65) tion of slavery), Anthony managed to advocate for
women's rights on a larger and larger scale.
In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was
adopted, which asserted that all people born in
the United States were citizens and that no legal
(70) privileges could be denied to any citizen. Anthony
claimed that since the language of the amendment
did not specify gender, it meant that women were
citizens and could therefore legally vote. She registered
to vote in New York in 1872. On Election
(75) Day, she and fifteen other women voted in the
presidential election. Three weeks later, they were
all arrested, and Anthony was brought to trial.
The presiding judge opposed women's suffrage.
He had written his decision before the trial began
(80) and, refusing to allow Anthony to testify, ordered
the jury to find her guilty. She was fined $100 plus
court fees. When she refused to pay, though, the
judge did not imprison her, thus denying her
the opportunity to appeal and send the case to
(85) a higher court where it might have gotten more
national attention.
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