AP Success - AP US History: Susan B. Anthony, Part 2
Women's rights activists in the late 19th century used many arguments to fight for suffrage.
Do you not see, gentlemen, that so long as you put this power of the ballot in the hands of every possible man, rich, poor, drunk, sober, educated, ignorant…and take the power from the hands of the women of the nation, the mothers, you…make it utterly impossible for regulation of sobriety to be maintained in our community? The first step towards social regulation and good society in towns, cities, and villages is the ballot in the hands of the mothers of those places.
Susan B. Anthony, Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, 1884.
Question 1
Briefly identify one argument for women's suffrage described in the excerpt.
Question 2
Briefly explain one way the women's suffrage and prohibition movements were related.
Question 3
Briefly explain one difference between the women's rights movement of the 1880s and the 1920s.
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