RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A member of AWSA; against prohibition
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A member of NWSA; against prohibition
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A member of NWSA; for prohibition
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A member of AWSA; for prohibition
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was not until the 1870s that Susan B. Anthony reached out to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to join the suffrage movement. Though she refused to support Prohibition, she told temperance women they needed the vote to reach their goal.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1876, she led a protest at the 1876 Centennial of our nation’s independence. She gave a speech-“Declaration of Rights”-written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1856 Anthony had become an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. She encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her.