In the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in "The Revolution," Anthony is expressing her opposition to the exclusion of women from the Fifteenth Amendment. The passage emphasizes the need for women's suffrage and advocates for including women in the movement for civil rights and voting rights, arguing against the idea that women should wait for their rights while men are granted them. This aligns with the historical context surrounding the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted voting rights to African American men but did not include women.
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 1869What was Anthony expressing her opposition to in this excerpt?
• the exclusion of women from the Fifteenth Amendment
the passage of the Quota Acts by the federal government
O the expansion of federal power during Reconstruction
social changes resulting from the temperance movement
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