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Salvador Pantoja
on Oct 12, 2024Verified
Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton oppose the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?
A) She believed that black men and immigrant men deserved the vote more than native-born white women.
B) She opposed the right to vote for black men.
C) Frederick Douglass also opposed it.
D) It did not ban discrimination in voting based on sex.
E) The American Woman Suffrage Association also opposed it.
Fifteenth Amendment
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1870, prohibiting the federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Voting Based on Sex
The practice of allowing individuals to vote or not based on their gender, historically favoring men over women until suffrage movements achieved gender equality in voting.
- Evaluate the societal, political, and financial drivers and outcomes of the Reconstruction amendments.
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Learning Objectives
- Evaluate the societal, political, and financial drivers and outcomes of the Reconstruction amendments.