USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Read this line:“Woman suffrage is coming-you know it. Will you, Honorable Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, help or hinder it?” Choose the set of antonyms (words with opposite meanings) in this sentence.
A
Suffrage and Woman
B
Honorable and Members
C
Help and Hinder
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He had been a leading and powerful opponent of women’s suffrage. We shall have to wait for 30-odd years to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage in this country. Certainly, in terms of women’s suffrage we did not. Finally, a topic left surprisingly unexplored is that of women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-2: -The movement begins In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention regarding women’s rights in the United States. Called the Seneca Falls Convention, the event in Seneca Falls, New York, drew over 300 people, mostly women.

Detailed explanation-3: -The women’s suffrage movement fought for the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections.

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.

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