The Women's Suffrage Movement, 1866–1920 — IGCSE History - American (0409) questions by topic
The Women's Suffrage Movement topic asks how reliable or useful a source is as evidence of support for suffrage or the National Woman's Party's methods, and why two sources differ on women's right to vote, worth between 6 and 15 marks.
Evaluate, describe, explain, to what extent and assess require you to interrogate the source's provenance, not just summarise what it shows. With 15 questions drawn from 2023 to 2025 papers covering the period 1866 to 1920, this page's instant marking is well suited to checking whether your reliability or usefulness judgement is actually argued from the source's content and context, rather than asserted.
May–June 2025, Paper 02
Study Source A. What can you learn from this source about women's suffrage in the late 1880s? Explain your answer using details from the source and your knowledge.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source B. How useful is this source to a historian studying the success of the state-by-state campaign for women's suffrage organized by the American Woman Suffrage…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source C. How reliable is this source as evidence of the depth of support for the suffrage cause in the 1880s? Explain your answer using details from the source and your…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Sources D and E. Why do these sources differ in their opinion of the right of women to obtain the vote? Explain your answer using details from the sources and your knowledge.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study all the sources (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). "The movement for women's suffrage faced considerable opposition and made little progress between 1866 and 1890." To what extent…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 02
Study Source A. What can you learn from this source about the methods used by the National Woman's Party? Explain your answer.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source B. How useful is this source as evidence of the work of the National Woman's Party? Explain your answer using details from the source and your knowledge.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source C. How accurately does this source reflect President Wilson's attitude towards women's suffrage? Explain your answer using details from the source and your knowledge.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Sources D and E. Why do these sources differ in their views about the approach the suffrage movement should take during the First World War? Explain your answer using…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study all the sources (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). "The First World War was the main reason why women won the vote in 1920." To what extent do you agree? Explain your answer using…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 02
Study Source A. What can you learn from this source about the suffrage movement in the 1880s? Explain your answer using details from the source and your knowledge.
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source B. How useful is this source to a historian studying the leadership of Lucretia Mott in the American Equal Rights Association? Explain your answer using details from…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Source C. How reliable is this source as evidence of the contribution of Lucy Stone to the campaign for female suffrage? Explain your answer using details from the source…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study Sources D and E. Why do these sources differ in their attitude towards the contribution that Elizabeth Cady Stanton made to the campaign for women's suffrage? Explain your…
Answer this question and get it marked →Study all the sources. 'The main quality of suffragist leaders was their ability as public speakers.' To what extent do you agree? Explain your answer using details from all the…
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