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Question 99 of 128 · American History · 1800s

Name one leader of the women’s rights movement in the 1800s.

Accepted answers

  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Lucy Stone

Any one of these is accepted, unless the question asks for more than one.

Why this is the answer

The women's rights movement of the 1800s fought for women to be treated as equals and, above all, for the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony is its best-known leader; she campaigned for women's suffrage and against slavery, and the 19th Amendment that finally gave women the vote in 1920 was widely called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, though she died before it passed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone are the other names on the official list. Name any one. Memory hook: Susan B. Anthony, and the amendment that carries her name.