BAEC Bulletin | May/June 2022 | 39
Susan B. Anthony Quiz CREATED BY GLENN MURRAY
1. ____ T / ____ F: – Women were granted to right to vote during Susan B. Anthony’s lifetime.
2. ____ T / ____ F: – Former male slaves were granted to right to vote before women were.
3. ____ T / ____ F: – Women were granted the right serve on juries in 1920 when the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified.
4. ____ T / ____ F: – The trial judge of US v Susan B. Anthony was an associate justice of the US Supreme Court.
5. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony’s own lawyer posted her bail so she would be released pending trial.
6. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony was denied the right to testify at her own trial.
7. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony’s trial was conducted in Monroe County because she was charged with illegally voting in Rochester, NY.
8. ____ T / ____ F: – At Susan B. Anthony’s jury trial, the judge directed a guilty verdict and the jurors never deliberated or voted.
9. ____ T / ____ F: – After the guilty verdict was entered in Susan B. Anthony’s trial, the judge denied her lawyer’s request that the jury be polled.
10. ____ T / ____ F: – Women were not allowed to serve as jurors during Susan B. Anthony’s lifetime.
11. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony was charged with violating US law based on an allegation that she voted illegally under NY law.
12. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony was sentenced to 10 days in jail, and served all 10 days because she was denied credit for good behavior.
13. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony’s lawyer called himself as a witness and testified at her trial.
14. ____ T / ____ F: – The last state to pass a law allowing women to serve on juries was Mississippi in 1968.
15. ____ T / ____ F: – Susan B. Anthony was raised in the Unitarian faith, and later in life adopted the Quaker faith.
16. ____ T / ____ F: – In 1875, the US Supreme Court held in Susan B. Anthony’s case that she had no constitutional right to vote.
17. Susan B. Anthony’s trial was attended by: a) Millard Filmore b) Ulysses S. Grant c) The Unsinkable Molly Brown
18. Susan B. Anthony’s grave is in the same cemetery as: a) Millard Filmore b) Frederick Douglass c) Oliver North 19. The first state allowing women to serve as jurors was: a) New York, b) California c) Utah
20. In defense of Susan B. Anthony her lawyers argued she had a constitutional right to vote, and also that even if she illegally voted: a) She did not willfully violate the law b) She was entrapped c) Her vote was not counted
21. At Susan B. Anthony’s sentencing, she proclaimed: a) “Sic Semper Tyrannis” b) “I am not sorry for my crime” c) “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God”
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