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Read the passage Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage". Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony's "Women's Rights to the Suffrage". Then answer the questions below.
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1.

What is the primary purpose of this speech?

D2.His.13.6-8
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2.

What reasons did Susan B. Anthony use to support women's suffrage? Select two correct answers.

D2.His.6.6-8
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3.

Drag each quotation from the source into the correct box based on whether the statement is a fact or an opinion.

  • I stand before you tonight under indictment for the supposed crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote
  • "Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office."
  • "To them this government is not a democracy."
  • "It is not a republic. It is a hateful aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe"
  • Fact
  • Opinion
D2.His.16.6-8