Susan B. Anthony was expressing her opposition to the exclusion of women from the Fifteenth Amendment. In this excerpt, she advocates for women's suffrage and argues that women should not have to wait for their rights while emphasizing their intelligence and moral standing. The Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted African American men the right to vote but did not extend that right to women, which is the specific exclusion she is addressing.
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 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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Yes, I am sure. In the excerpt you provided, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are indeed arguing against the exclusion of women from the right to vote, particularly in the context of the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted voting rights to African American men but not to women. Their statement highlights the injustice of delaying women's suffrage and calls for granting women the right to vote alongside or prior to other groups. Thus, their opposition specifically pertains to the exclusion of women from voting rights during that period.
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