PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the years between the Seneca Falls Convention and the Civil War, powerful links existed between antislavery and women’s rights advocates. Virtually all women’s rights advocates supported abolition.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster, and Sojourner Truth are among the most well known.
Detailed explanation-4: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-5: -women’s rights movement, also called women’s liberation movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and ‘70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the “second wave” of feminism.