NJ Center For Civic Ed

Women’s rights advocates like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, also a Quaker, hoped that the Civil War would pave the way for suffrage for women, as well as African-American men. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress in February 1869 specifically enfranchised African-American men, but not women. ................
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