RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The weather was nicer and men were not as angry
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Pioneer women work side by side with men on the land
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Slavery ended in the West sooner and this encourage men to give women the right to vote
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the debates on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, women’s rights advocates lobbied-unsuccessfully-to enshrine woman suffrage in the Constitution. As attention then turned to the states, many supporters saw the West, with its young governments, as fertile territory for experiments with political reforms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Territories like Wyoming wanted more white settlers, so they figured they could bring more white women out by allowing them to vote. “Long story short, if they could get white women out here, white men would be more likely to settle down, ” Scharff said. She added that these laws were exclusively aimed at white women.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ans: Suffrage movement was a movement by the women and poor people who fought for their rights to participate in the government. This movement was dominantly observed in Europe and the USA. This movement accomplished: The women’s right to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first U.S. territory and state to enfranchise women also became the 27th state in the race to ratification when Wyoming ratified the 19th Amendment on January 27, 1920.