Why Did the Women's Suffrage Movement Aim at a Constitutional

question 7

Multiple Choice

Why did the women's suffrage movement aim at a constitutional amendment?

• A)State legislatures consistently opposed efforts to grant the right to vote to women.
• B)The Supreme Court ruled against efforts to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to women.
• C)Ordinary legislation that Congress had passed had proved ineffective.
• D)The experience of African Americans showed that only a constitutional amendment could quickly and effectively guarantee the right to vote.
• E)An amendment was perceived as the easiest path to equal rights.

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