There were two main groups with differing ideas about how to attain those goals. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869. They did not support the campaign for the Fifteenth Amendment, which would give African American men the right to vote, because it excluded women. Women in the NWSA wrote letters to the federal government. They asked for women to be included in the amendment, but they were denied. Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell started the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) that same year. They supported the Fifteenth Amendment. They used a different strategy. Instead of petitioning the federal government, they went to the states individually. They urged each state government to change their constitutions to give women the right to vote in local and state elections

Question

What text structure does the author of the article use to organize paragraph 3?

A.
The author compares and contrasts the beliefs and efforts made by the two main groups during the movement.

B.
The author persuades the reader that the NWSA accomplished more than the AWSA for the suffrage movement.

C.
The author gives details in chronological order of the work done by the suffragists working toward women’s voting rights.

D.
The author explains how the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment paved the way for the Nineteenth Amendment to be passed.

Answer 1

A. The author compares and contrasts the beliefs and efforts made by the two main groups during the movement.

The paragraph describes the differing approaches and beliefs of the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), highlighting how they related to the Fifteenth Amendment and their strategies for advocating women's voting rights.