Name One Leader of the Women's Rights Movement in the 1800s: Civics Question 99

Name one woman: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, or Lucy Stone.

Question 99 asks you to name one leader of the women’s rights movement in the 1800s. Accepted names include Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone. Give one and stop. You do not need dates, and you do not need to say what the person did.

Who These Women Were

• Susan B. Anthony. She spent her life campaigning for women’s right to vote. She was arrested for voting in an election, and her face later appeared on a United States dollar coin.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She helped organize the first women’s rights convention in the country, held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
• Sojourner Truth. She was born into slavery, gained her freedom, and became a well known speaker against slavery and for the rights of women.
• Harriet Tubman. She escaped slavery, led others to freedom, and worked for women’s suffrage in her later years.
• Lucretia Mott. She organized the Seneca Falls convention with Stanton and spoke against slavery.
• Lucy Stone. She lectured for women’s rights and helped found a national suffrage association.

All of them worked in the 1800s. None of them lived to see women vote nationwide, because that came in 1920.

Why the Officer Asks This

The test spends several questions on how voting rights grew. This one puts names and faces on that story instead of leaving it to amendment numbers.

It also sets up question 102, which asks when all women got the right to vote. The women in this question spent decades pushing for the change that question 102 dates to 1920.

How to Remember One Name

Do not learn the whole list. Learn one name and say it fast.

Susan B. Anthony is the name that shows up outside the test. It is on a coin. The 19th Amendment is nicknamed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, so her name and women’s voting rights already travel together.

If a different name sticks better for you, use that one. Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman are two words each. Elizabeth Cady Stanton links to Seneca Falls. The officer marks you correct on any name from the official list.

Common Ways People Get This Wrong

Some applicants try to describe the person instead of naming her. The question asks for a name, so a description is not an answer.

Others reach for a modern name they have heard in the news. The question is fixed to the 1800s, and the officer is working from the official list of names.

What to Say on Test Day

Say “Susan B. Anthony.” Then stop talking.

You do not need to add that she fought for the vote, or that she was arrested, or when she lived. The name by itself is the whole answer.