Lancaster--Film Assignment 1

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Film Assignment 1-- The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Failure Is Impossible HIS 265 Instructor: Gil Wheeler Megan Lancaster Grade: 23.25/25 = 93% 1. What was the name of the newspaper Stanton and Anthony put out in 1868? It was called The Reveloution, and was a weekly women’s rights newspaper. The first one was published on January 8,1868. 2. What was Stanton’s role with the newspaper? Stanton wrote the editorial’s. 3. What was Anthony’s role with the newspaper? Anthony was the publisher. and made sure the typesetting was done by women. -1/2 4. What news did Stanton’s, and Anthony’s newspaper carry? It caried remarkable news about what women all around the country are doing. It is by women, and about women and for women. 5. After 2.5 years, why did The Revolution fail? The Woman’s Journal came out, and it was their rivals magazine. It took off and put the reveloution out of business. Lucy Stone -.25 6. Explain Stanton and Anthony’s interesting strategy. They argued that the 14 th amendment properly understood enfranchised women. 7. Once she and her three sisters arrived at the Rochester Barbershop, what did Anthony demand? What was the outcome at the Rochester Barbershop? Anthony was the “spokeswoman” for all the women, and demanded that they be signed up to vote. The men who we’re all young enough to be her son, refused to her demand. Then she threatened to sue them all for damages. The registars gave in, and the name’s of all three Anthony sister’s we’re added to the voting list. 8. Three weeks after Anthony and her sister voted, what were they charged with? A U.S. Marshall came to the Anthony family home with a warrant for knowingly, unlawfully, and wrongfully voting. 9. Anthony made the US Marshall wait downstairs while she did what?

She went upstairs to change her clothes, she wanted to be dressed properly for this event. 10. What was Miss Anthony’s response to the streetcar conductor when he asked for fare? That she was traveling at the expense of the federal government, and the U.S. marshall would be paying her fare. 11. How did Anthony use her arrest/standing trial to her advantage? She used it to get publicity for the cause 12. Why did Justice Ward Hunt refuse to allow Anthony to testify on her own behalf? He stated that women we’re incompetent to testify on their own behalf. 13. What was Anthony’s response to the $100 fine plus the cost of prosecution when she was Justice Hunt found her guilty? Anthony said "I shall never pay a penny of your unjust fine" and she never did. 14. Why was the Minor vs Happersett case significant? It strengthened the women’s rights movement, and it would give them a goal. -1 15. How long would it take for Anthony and Stanton to find a senator willing to propose a new amendment to the Constitution—guaranteeing the vote to women? Who was the senator who proposed the amendment? It took them three years to convince a senator, and finally on January 10,1878 Repblican Senator Aaron Sargent proposed a new amendment to the constitution. 16. The proposed new amendment would not make it out of committee. How often would it have to be reintroduced to Congress? It would have to be reintroduced into every session of congress for the next 45 years. 17. What was the most important development in the last quarter of the 19th century? The proliferation of women’s organizations which bring women into public activism, and at times political engagement. Anthony saw the possibility of building a mass women’s suffrage movement. 18. Frances Willard was the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. What did she want and why? She wanted the vote for women to be passed, so that she could outlaw alcohol and extend christian morality into every aspect of civic life.

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