LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Ku Klux Klan
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Abolitionists
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Anti-Suffrage Society
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Regulators
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abolitionist men supported women and gave them a platform to engage publicly for the cause of abolition and women’s rights. The issue of women’s rights was promoted through likeminded abolitionist men such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Detailed explanation-2: -The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1869 – they opposed the 15th amendment because it excluded women.
Detailed explanation-3: -Frederick Douglass was one such prominent abolitionist and orator who lent his support to the women’s suffrage movement early on, and he remained steadfast in his conviction that women should be conferred civil rights equal to men.