RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the National American Woman Suffrage Association
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the National Women’s Party
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the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Formed in 1890, NAWSA was the result of a merger between two rival factions–the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a true leader of the woman suffrage movement, serving as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for twenty years and the as first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Detailed explanation-3: -Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women’s suffrage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, or the NWSA.