There were women who fought for it and men who stood by their side and then there were those who were scared of the possible outcomes that right to vote would bring. Which brought groups that were against women’s rights. Many women-suffrage advocates had to over obstacles and some weren’t correct in the way they recruited for their movement. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony decided to not support the Fifteenth Amendment (guarantees African Males the …show more content…
By this time the movement changed its approach from men and women were created equal to women were different from men. They argued that they could make their home life into a political virtue, using the authority to create a purer, more moral “maternal commonwealth.” This caught the attention of the Temperance advocates and middle-class white people. The Temperance advocates believed women having the right to vote would mobilize a large voting bloc on their behalf. The middle-class white people believed that white women would guarantee immediate and long-lasting white supremacy, honestly achieved. With this approach they started to catch the attention of those who were once against it. They were achieving the votes they needed to make changes. In 1910, the west began to spread the vote to women. The Southern and Eastern states still refused to get on