Q 01/05

Which was the first self-governing country to grant women the vote at national level, in 1893?

A) Canada

B) New Zealand

C) Australia

D) The United States

Answer · why

B) New Zealand

New Zealand's premier, Richard Seddon, tried to sink the bill, but his meddling so angered two councillors that they switched sides and it passed by 2...

Q 02/05

Which US territory gave women the vote and the right to stand for office in 1869?

A) Utah

B) Wyoming

C) Washington

D) Colorado

Answer · why

B) Wyoming

Wyoming's all-male legislature wanted publicity and hoped the law would draw women to a territory where men outnumbered them about six to one. It kept...

Q 03/05

Which Seneca Falls newspaper editor gave her name to the loose trousers worn by 1850s dress reformers?

A) Lucretia Mott

B) Julia Ward Howe

C) Amelia Bloomer

D) Matilda Joslyn Gage

Answer · why

C) Amelia Bloomer

Amelia Bloomer didn't invent bloomers: Elizabeth Smith Miller designed the outfit, and Bloomer's paper The Lily made it famous. In 1851 she also intro...

Q 04/05

Which famous abolitionist spoke up at Seneca Falls to keep the demand for the vote in the Declaration of Sentiments?

A) Wendell Phillips

B) Henry Ward Beecher

C) William Lloyd Garrison

D) Frederick Douglass

Answer · why

D) Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both spoke in its defence, and the demand passed, the only one of the convention's resolutions not carri...

Q 05/05

Elizabeth Cady Stanton modelled the Declaration of Sentiments, signed at Seneca Falls, on which famous document?

A) The Declaration of Independence

B) The Declaration of the Rights of Man

C) The Bill of Rights

D) The Magna Carta

Answer · why

A) The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence. Stanton kept its phrasing but wrote that 'all men and women are created equal' and charged man, not a king, with tyra...