RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Women-accustomed to assuming leadership positions in abolitionist organizations-demanded more political rights for themselves.
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American women prior to the Civil War and eager to defend their nation began volunteering for the armed forces; consequently, leading to calls for women’s suffrage.
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Fearful that African-American men might gain the vote before white women, many suffragettes began organizing and demanding suffrage for themselves.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -From the founding of the United States, women were almost universally excluded from voting. Only when women began to chafe at this restriction, however, was their exclusion made explicit. The movement for woman suffrage started in the early 19th century during the agitation against slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1848 Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution – guaranteeing women the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1869, a new group called the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. They began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.