USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

WESTWARD EXPANSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is best known for her work in
A
the abolition of slavery
B
getting California to become a state
C
women’s rights
D
Temperance Reform
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was one of the leading figures of the early women’s rights movement and is best known for her efforts in writing the Declaration of Sentiments for the Seneca Falls Convention and for organizing the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1878, she drafted a federal suffrage amendment that was introduced in every Congress thereafter until women were granted the right to vote in 1920. With Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage she compiled the first three volumes of the six-volume “History of Woman Suffrage.” She also published “The Woman’s Bible, ” 2 vol.

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