3. the break with abolitionism

Question 1

American Equal Rights Association (AERA)
when?
prompted by?

Answer 1

1866

abolitionism

Question 2

American Equal Rights Association (AERA)

aim?

Answer 2

remove restrictions on rights on both racial and gender grounds

Question 3

Abolitionism distanced itself from women’s rights to make sure

Answer 3

AA were prioritised- weakened cause for female suffrage.

Question 4

15th amendment

Answer 4

voting rights could not be denied ‘on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude’. Did not mention sex.

Question 5

14th amendment

Answer 5

guaranteed equal rights but penalised states which denied rights to ‘any male inhabitants of such state’