Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change. What conclusion can best be drawn from this synthesis
of new information with previously covered information?
Would the bicycle help bring about a new kind of equality
between men and women? Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
her colleagues certainly hoped so. At any rate, the image
of a female cyclist quickly became associated with
efforts to win more rights for women. When Cambridge
University in England decided to offer female students
full admission in 1897, the male students protested by
hanging a figure of a woman on a bicycle in effigy.
O The bicycle was successful in achieving equality
between the sexes.
England was ahead in its fight for equal opportunities
for women.
O Many people strongly opposed the increasing rights
of women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for a woman's right to
attend college.