Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was an American feminist and reformer best known for her unrelenting efforts to achieve social and
political rights for women. As a Quaker, she received an excellent education and encouragement for her independent and self-confident nature. As an adult, she worked hard for the passage of the 14th Amendment, which would extend voting rights to African American males. She fought to include women in the amendment, but she was unsuccessful. Which statement BEST follows the provided information and concludes the paragraph?
A) Susan B. Anthony was also interested in the temperance movement, which worked to limit the consumption of alcohol.
B) Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin.
C) Although she did not live to see it, Susan B. Anthony set the stage for passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
D) Quakers are members of the Religious Society of Friends, a faith that emerged as a new Christian denomination in England during a period of religious turmoil in the seventeenth century.
Her religious background in the main body of the what was given establishes her as a Quaker. If that's all she was, she would have been forgotten 10 years after her death. D is almost irrelevant: it is not the answer.
B is true but the main body of the excerpt is much more concerned with why she broke "the law" and voted.
A That could have been put somewhere in the paragraph, but it is not a good conclusion.
C is right because after her death, what she worked tirelessly to achieve came to pass with the passage of the 19th amendment.
The most enslaved people in the world for the longest period of time is definitely women. The 19th Amendment was part of a needed change in world (male) thinking.
