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

Why this is the answer

Six names are on the official list, and any one of them answers the question: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone. Susan B. Anthony is the one the study guide covers in detail, which makes her the most useful name to learn. Anthony was born in Massachusetts on February 15, 1820. She campaigned for women's right to vote, spoke out publicly against slavery, and pushed for women to be treated equally in the workplace. The study guide places her alongside Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery and became a leading civil rights voice of the 1800s; she agreed with him that slavery should be illegal, and she also wanted women to have the same rights as men, including the vote. She did not live to see that happen. The 19th Amendment, which says the right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex, passed Congress on June 4, 1919, and was ratified on August 18, 1920. Anthony had died 14 years earlier, yet the amendment was widely known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. In 1979 she became the first woman whose image appeared on a circulating U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar. The 19th Amendment came out of the women's suffrage movement, the same movement this question asks about. Learn to recognize the other five as well, even if you only plan to say one. The official list gives each of them the same weight as Anthony, so Stanton, Truth, Tubman, Mott or Stone is just as correct, and hearing a familiar name in your head can steady you if the first one slips away. The question says "the 1800s," and the century matters. Women whose work belongs to the 1900s are not on this list. If your mind goes blank, go back to the coin and the amendment: the woman on the dollar is the one the amendment was named for.