RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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formed the National Women’s Party
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led NAWSA
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refused to practice more radical forms of protest
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took a conservative approach to working to gain suffrage
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Detailed explanation-1: -The origins of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) date from 1912, when Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, young Americans schooled in the militant tactics of the British suffrage movement, were appointed to the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s (NAWSA ) Congressional Committee.
Detailed explanation-2: -NAWSA primarily focused on state-by-state campaigns; Paul preferred to lobby Congress for a constitutional amendment. Such differences led Paul and others to split with NAWSA and form the National Woman’s Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Believing NAWSA was too conservative, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage, which, in 1917, became the National Women’s Party (NWP).
Detailed explanation-4: -’Silent Sentinels’ and the Right to Vote Undeterred, and disagreeing with tactics followed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Paul and Burns formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913, which then founded the National Woman’s Party in 1916 (the groups merged in 1917).