Read the excerpt from the writings of Susan B. Anthony and answer the question. We say not another man, black or white, until woman is inside the citadel. . . . The old anti slavery school says women must stand back and wait. . . . But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first. . . . There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; or any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she take it. — Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Revolution, February 1869

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Read the excerpt from the writings of Susan B. Anthony and answer the question. We say not another man, black or white, until woman is inside the citadel. . . . The old anti slavery school says women must stand back and wait. . . . But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first. . . . There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; or any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she take it. — Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Revolution, February 1869
What was Susan B. Anthony expressing her opposition to in this excerpt? Choose one correct answer
A. the exclusion of women from the Fifteenth Amendment 
B. social changes resulting from the temperance movement 
C. the passage of the Quota Acts by the federal government 
D. the expansion of federal power during Reconstruction

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A. the exclusion of women from the Fifteenth Amendment