What Issue Caused the Women Suffrage Movement to Split into Two

question 9

Multiple Choice

What issue caused the women suffrage movement to split into two different groups, the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association?

• A) They differed over strategy-whether to seek the right to vote in the states or via a constitutional amendment.
• B) They split over whether the struggle for black suffrage and women's suffrage should be combined.
• C) They split over whether free black women should gain suffrage when freedmen did.
• D) They debated the need for laws guaranteeing married women the right to their own property.
• E) None of these choices

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