Q 01/05

Which conservative activist, author of A Choice Not an Echo, led the STOP ERA campaign in the 1970s?

A) Anita Bryant

B) Phyllis Schlafly

C) Beverly LaHaye

D) Clare Boothe Luce

Answer · why

B) Phyllis Schlafly

Phyllis Schlafly began her campaign in 1972, when polls showed the amendment was widely popular. Political scientist Jane Mansbridge argues it would h...

Q 02/05

Which state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment first, within hours of the Senate vote in 1972?

A) Delaware

B) Nebraska

C) Hawaii

D) Kansas

Answer · why

C) Hawaii

Hawaii had the clock on its side: the Senate voted in mid-afternoon in Washington, when it was still midday in the islands, and both state chambers ap...

Q 03/05

Which party was the first to put the Equal Rights Amendment in its platform, in 1940, before dropping support in 1980?

A) Democrats

B) Republicans

C) Progressives

D) Libertarians

Answer · why

B) Republicans

Republicans were the amendment's main base until the late 1960s, backed by middle-class women, while many Northern Democrats sided with labor unions t...

Q 04/05

Which former First Lady long opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, fearing women workers would lose protections?

A) Eleanor Roosevelt

B) Lady Bird Johnson

C) Bess Truman

D) Jacqueline Kennedy

Answer · why

A) Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt softened in the early 1960s, telling supporters they could have the amendment if they wanted it, yet she never went so far as to end...

Q 05/05

Which suffragist, jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House, wrote the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923?

A) Lucy Burns

B) Carrie Chapman Catt

C) Alice Paul

D) Inez Milholland

Answer · why

C) Alice Paul

Alice Paul kept at it for half a century: in 1943 she rewrote the amendment into the wording that Congress finally passed in 1972.