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How Were American Women Impacted by Passage of the Fourteenth

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How were American women impacted by passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments during Reconstruction?


A) Women failed to gain full citizenship or voting rights, which African American men obtained under these two amendments.
B) The women's suffrage movement remained united despite differences among its leaders over the issues of African American and women's suffrage.
C) Radical leaders of the women's suffrage movement such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony supported the Fifteenth Amendment, arguing that voting rights for African Americans took precedence over those same rights for women.
D) Many middle-class women abandoned the women's suffrage movement after passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

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