Why Did Elizabeth Cady Stanton Oppose the Ratification of the Fifteenth

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Multiple Choice

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.

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