RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Passage of the 18th Amendment
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The American Civil War
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The arrest of Susan B. Anthony
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The death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the American Civil War, suffrage activism largely ceased. Women in both North and South threw themselves into war work, founding numerous local organizations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Immediately after the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony, a strong and outspoken advocate of women’s rights, demanded that the Fourteenth Amendment include a guarantee of the vote for women as well as for African-American males. In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although the Civil War temporarily disrupted the women’s rights movement, women’s efforts and the organizations they created laid the foundations for a stronger movement after the war.