Question
Read the two excerpts below and answer the question.
"Dear Son, . . . Hurrah and vote for suffrage and don't keep them in doubt . . . I've been watching to see how you stood but have not seen anything yet.. . . Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. [Carrie Chapman] Catt with her . . . ratification."
– Febb Burn, taken from a 1920 letter to her son Harry Burn, who served as a representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives
"I want to state that I changed my vote in favor of ratification first because I believe in full suffrage as a right; second, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify; third, I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification;"
— Harry Burn, excerpt from a 1920 speech to the Tennessee House of Representatives
What resulted from the votes cast by political leaders like Harry Burn described in the excerpts?
A.
Tennessee adopted African Americans' rights to vote on a statewide level, becoming the thirty-sixth state to extend suffrage to Black Americans.
B.
Tennessee adopted women's rights to vote on a statewide level, becoming the thirty-sixth state to extend suffrage to female Americans.
C.
Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured Black Americans' rights to vote.
D.
Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured women's right to vote.
"Dear Son, . . . Hurrah and vote for suffrage and don't keep them in doubt . . . I've been watching to see how you stood but have not seen anything yet.. . . Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. [Carrie Chapman] Catt with her . . . ratification."
– Febb Burn, taken from a 1920 letter to her son Harry Burn, who served as a representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives
"I want to state that I changed my vote in favor of ratification first because I believe in full suffrage as a right; second, I believe we had a moral and legal right to ratify; third, I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification;"
— Harry Burn, excerpt from a 1920 speech to the Tennessee House of Representatives
What resulted from the votes cast by political leaders like Harry Burn described in the excerpts?
A.
Tennessee adopted African Americans' rights to vote on a statewide level, becoming the thirty-sixth state to extend suffrage to Black Americans.
B.
Tennessee adopted women's rights to vote on a statewide level, becoming the thirty-sixth state to extend suffrage to female Americans.
C.
Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured Black Americans' rights to vote.
D.
Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured women's right to vote.
Answers
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The correct answer is:
D. Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured women's right to vote.
D. Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which secured women's right to vote.