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Feminist movement in America was led (mainly) by Susan B. Anthony.
the fifteenth amendment applied to woman as well
She believed she had the right to vote because the Founding Fathers stated that "everybody was created equal", and if men were allowed to vote, she and other women could too! The Fifteenth Amendment didn't mention gender.
The wording of the amendment - 'The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude' - clearly excluded women the right to vote. Women had to wait another 50 years with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 and neither Elizabeth Cady Stanton nor Susan B. Anthony lived to see that day.
Susan B. Anthony.
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Because, the fifteenth amendment did not mention gender!
The Fifteenth Amendment said all citizens could vote.
Feminist movement in America was led (mainly) by Susan B. Anthony.
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869 in New York in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its founders, who opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women, were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Susan B. Anthony
the fifteenth amendment applied to woman as well
She believed she had the right to vote because the Founding Fathers stated that "everybody was created equal", and if men were allowed to vote, she and other women could too! The Fifteenth Amendment didn't mention gender.
elizabeth cady Stanton and susan b. Anthony, although Anthony died in 1906, when the twelfth amendment to the constitution was made in 1920
The wording of the amendment - 'The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude' - clearly excluded women the right to vote. Women had to wait another 50 years with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 and neither Elizabeth Cady Stanton nor Susan B. Anthony lived to see that day.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony.