RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Question
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one suffrage group supported the Cult of Domesiticity
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northern and southern suffragists could not reconcile their differences
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one suffrage group was angered that women did not have the right to vote at the same time as African Americans
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one suffrage group wanted to recruit wealthy women
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Detailed explanation-1: -Woman suffragists’ vehement disagreement over supporting the 15th Amendment, however, resulted in a “schism” that split the women’s suffrage movement into two new suffrage organizations that focused on different strategies to win women voting rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -1869. Disagreements over the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and the relationship between women’s suffrage and the movement for racial equality split the women’s rights movement with allegiances divided between two main organizations: the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the Civil War, women’s rights advocates became concerned with affirming citizenship and the right to vote for newly-freed African Americans. In May 1866, women’s rights advocates founded a new organization, the American Equal Right Association (AERA) to campaign for universal suffrage.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1869, activists established two competing national organizations focused on winning woman suffrage. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, while the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) supported the new law. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.