History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0021 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Suffrage Split
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The idea
The American Equal Rights Association, formed in eighteen sixty-six, joined abolitionists and women's rights advocates in one campaign for universal suffrage.
In practice
Anthony and Stanton founding the National Woman Suffrage Association in eighteen sixty-nine.
Where people slip
They demanded the vote for women at once. Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell accepted a gradual approach that put Black men's suffrage first.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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