Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. The effort picked up steam after the Civil War, when debate over the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended the vote to African American men, split the movement. Some leaders, like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, refused to endorse the amendment, believing it should also give women the vote. Others, such as Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and long-term women’s rights ally Frederick Douglass, argued that if black men were enfranchised, their support would help women achieve their goal. The conflict fractured the women’s movement, with some focusing on obtaining women’s suffrage state by state, others aiming at achieving universal suffrage at the federal level. Chronological structure is used in this passage to
Answer
A
illustrate the impact of the Fifteenth Amendment on the suffrage movement.
B
compare the challenges of leaders supporting African American suffrage and women’s suffrage
C
explain the effect of the Civil War on the debate over the Fifteenth Amendment.
D
describe the personalities of leaders in the women’s suffrage movement.
Explanation
The passage moves through events in time: after the Civil War, debate over the Fifteenth Amendment divided suffrage leaders, and that conflict then fractured the movement into different strategies. This sequence shows the amendment’s impact on the women’s suffrage movement. The passage does not mainly explain the Civil War’s effect on the debate or describe the leaders’ personalities.
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