Why Did Ardent Abolitionists, Such as Susan B

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Multiple Choice

Why did ardent abolitionists, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, fight against the Fourteenth Amendment?

• A) It enfranchised black men but not white women.
• B) It described citizens in the Constitution as "male."
• C) It did not support the rights of black women.
• D) It gave free blacks too many rights.

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