History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0772 short lesson, about 20 seconds
An Earlier Argument
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The idea
Before the parades, Mary Ann Shadd Cary testified to the House Judiciary Committee that the Fourteenth Amendment already guaranteed women the vote.
In practice
The same argument Virginia Minor lost before the Supreme Court in eighteen seventy-five.
Where people slip
Citizenship alone had not carried the vote. The movement needed an amendment that named women's suffrage directly.
Your place on the trail
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