Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j7QIGnG10099; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s30f23c8.023@mailsrv4.gsu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3285] Women's equality day X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.4 Status: O Content-Length: 3608 Lines: 106 Today, August 26th is Women's Equality Day. According to the National Women's History Project Website: (http://www.nwhp.org/events/equality-day/history-of-equality-day.html) "At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as "Women's Equality Day." The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world's first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York." I found this quiz from the National Women's History Project and I thought that it might be a fun activity to do with a GED level class: http://www.nwhp.org/events/equality-day/equality-day-quiz.html To help celebrate Women's Equality Day, the National Women's History Project developed a quiz to use at your events, or just around your office, or in conversation with friends. It took 72 years for women to win the right to vote. 1. August 26th is celebrated as Women's Equality Day to commemorate a. the work women did during the Second World War b. the anniversary of women winning the right to vote c. the flappers of the 1920's d. the contemporary women's rights movement 2. In what year did Congresswoman Bella Abzug introduced legislation to ensure that this important American anniversary would be celebrated? a. 1992 b. 1984 c. 1971 d. 1965 3. In what year did women in the United States win the right to vote? a. 1776 b. 1848 c. 1920 d. 1946 4. How many years did it take for women to win the right to vote in the United States? a. 72 years b. 120 years c. 20 years d. 51 years 5. Women in most of the western states won the right to vote years before the Federal Amendment was secured. This is the 90th anniversary of women in Kansas and Oregon winning the vote. What other state is celebrating the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in their state. a. New York b. Florida c. Maine d. Arizona 6. What was the name given to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States. a. Abigail Adams Amendment b. Sojourner Truth Amendment c. Susan B. Anthony Amendment d. Gloria Steinem Amendment 7. Women who worked for women's right to vote were called a. radical b. immoral c. suffragist d. all of the above 8. The term suffragist is derived from a. one who suffers b. a voting tablet in ancient times c. the Constitution d. the Bill of Rights 9. How many other countries had already guaranteed women's right to vote before the campaign was won in the United States? a. 6 b. 2 c. 1 d. 16 10. What was the first country that granted women the right to vote? a. Canada b. Germany c. New Zealand d. United Kingdom Answers: 1. b 2. c 3. c 4. a (from the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 to 1920) 5. d 6. c 7. d 8. b 9. d (New Zealand (1893), Australia (1902), Finland (1906), Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), USSR (1917), Canada (1918), Germany (1918), Poland (1918), Austria (1919), Belgium (1919), Great Britain (1919), Ireland (1919), Luxembourg (1919), the Netherlands (1919), Sweden (1919) 10. c (1893) Daphne Greenberg Assistant Professor Educational Psych. & Special Ed. Georgia State University P.O. Box 3979 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University P.O. Box 3977 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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