USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, or the NWSA.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frustrated with the suffrage movement’s leadership, Alice Paul had broken with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to form the National Woman’s Party (NWP). It employed more militant tactics to agitate for the vote.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and supported a federal amendment for women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The NWSA, led primarily by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed the Fifteenth Amendment as written, arguing that women should be extended voting rights at the same time as Black men.