How did the feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony react to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment?
a. The two encouraged the nation's feminists to support the amendment, stating this was the "Negro's hour" and that women could afford to wait a few years for the vote.
b. Although they publicly supported the amendment, private correspondence indicates that both women feared the impact the Negro vote could potentially have on women's suffrage.
c. Stanton's support of the amendment and Anthony's opposition led to a temporary split in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
d. Angered that the Constitution was being amended to, in effect, make gender a qualification for voting, they campaigned against ratification of the amendment.
Ans: d. Angered that the Constitution was being amended to, in effect, make gender a qualification for voting, they campaigned against ratification of the amendment.
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