Women's Suffrage Reading Comprehension Practice

Women should share in working outside the home to take some of the burden from men

Women are more intelligent than are given credit and can therefore earn more money

Woman should join forces to stop racism

Women deserve the same rights and protections under the law and should have the right to vote

confident about her ability to obtain the right for women to vote

certain that women are superior to men

pleased that men care for and make decisions for women

fearful of the consequences of pursuing the right to vote

the men would act out violently at her proposal

the audience would be supportive of her ideas

the women in the audience would be scared at the new proposal

the audience would ignore her proposal

“it is downright mockery to talk to women of the blessings of liberty"

“the only question left to be settled"

“We, the people of the United States”

"four score and seven years ago"

to show that women have more rights than men

to explain why she is now getting out of jail

to show the ridiculousness of being arrested for voting

to convince the audience that she should be released from jail

Alliteration

Allustion

Idiom

Repetition

to persuade by citing a primary source

to persuade by citing a secondary source

to persuade by repetition

to persuade by using a figure of speech

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."

"To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed."

"Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities."

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."

Women can do anything men can do. 

Christ was born from God and a woman

Women are more intelligent than men

Women are not helpless

noise; liveliness; a loud unpleasent noise

to have turned up the earth with a plow

out of harmony or balance

none of these

She becomes enraged and insults the man.

She says religion has nothing to do with a person’s rights.

She says his argument betrays his ignorance.

She cites evidence from the Bible that shows the importance of women.

Each person has the same abilities as any other, so each should be treated with corresponding respect.

Each person deserves an equal opportunity to fulfill his or her potential, however great or small that potential might be.

Each person deserves an equal opportunity to expand his or her intelligence, which can be improved without limit.

Each person has abilities that differ from those of others, but only educated people should be allowed to vote.

She wants to answer those who use women's weakness to justify their treatment by demonstrating her own strength.

She displays her own obvious intelligence to establish that women are more intelligent than men.

She wants to establish through her own example that in many ways women are superior to men and stronger.

She wants to use her own speechmaking talent to prove that a woman can deliver a powerful speech to an audience that includes men.

being denied an education

being sold repeatedly

seeing her children sold

seeing her husband killed