How terribly short sighted of me. Susan B. Anthony would be considered by many to be the original Feminist. Since her birthday is February 15th and the death date is March 13th this seems like a good time to ask a few questions about the woman who plowed some of the early ground to plant the seeds of feminism. This is also our daughter’s birthday. She is a fine example of what a strong woman should be.

So here are some questions on Susan B. Anthony and possibly one or two about other noted feminists.

1) Part of the reason that Anthony became educated and believed what she did believe was because of her family’s religion. What religion was that?
a) Mormon
b) Catholicism
c) Church of England
d) Quakers

2) Which movement was Anthony’s earliest involvement in social movements?
a) abolition
b) temperance
c) suffrage
d) education

3) Not being allowed to speak at a __________ meeting caused Anthony to start her own branch
a) abolition
b) temperance
c) suffrage
d) education

4) This other famous women’s leader of the time joined Anthony in starting the aforementioned branch, thus forming a lifelong friendship.
a) Abby McFarland
b) Mother Jones
c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

5) In the late 1860s Anthony began publishing a weekly journal of women’s rights. The name of this journal was:
a) Women’s Rights
b) Equality
c) The Revolution
d) Human Rights

6) In 1872, Anthony was arrested for the crime of _________ as a woman and later put on trial.
a) owning property
b) seeking office
c) drinking in public
d) voting

7) In 1869, Anthony once more joined with her friend mentioned in question #4 to start:
a) The Women’s Christian Temperance Union
b) The National American Woman Suffrage Association
c) The National Labor Union
d) The Journal of American Rights

8) Oddly, one of Anthony’s goals has yet to be met in the US. That goal is:
a) An equal rights amendment
b) equal pay for equal work
c) intergrated labor unions
d) woman president

9) Friends Anthony made in the abolitionist and equal rights movements included:
a) Lucretia Mott
b) Frederick Douglass
c) William Lloyd Garrison
d) all of the above

10) Susan B. Anthony died March 13, 1906. How much longer would women have to wait to get the vote?
a) 10 years
b) 14 years
c) 18 years
d) 22 years

I bow my head with great respect to Ms. Anthony. The founders started a country before all the work was done. So people like Susan B. Anthony, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King and John Lewis have had to step up and help turn the US into a finished product. Every day there are men and women working their butts off to bring the rights of democracy to all. Sadly, st the same time we have folks like Terry Branstad and Matt Schultz trying to stop them.

I bow to all of you who have taken part in anti-war marches or civil rights movements in your lifetimes. While some lead, those of us who join in deserve a hand also.

And now, some answers on Ms. Anthony:

1) d) Anthony was raised a Quaker. Later in life she slowly turned to agnosticism

2) a) in her teens, Anthony was gathering petitions for the abolition of slavery

3) b) Anthony was not allowed to speak at a state temperance meeting because she was a woman.

4) c) Anthony became lifelong friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as they formed their own branch of a temperance group.

5) c) The Revolution a publication that fought for rightd for women – truly revolutionary

6) d) voting. She was fined $100 but still ahs not paid it.

7) b) Anthony and Stanton began the NAWSA with Stanton as president.

8) b) equal pay – although Obama is working on it.

9) d) all of the above

10) b) 14 years later in 1920.