AFROAMER 222 Study Guide - Final Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angela Davis, Grandfather Clause

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: AFROAMER 222
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Discrimination based on literacy, poll taxation, property requirements or grandfather clause fell under this amendment. Downfall of reconstruction era: radical republicans enforced reconstruction acts, republican- north, democrat south, southerners resented the acts and created an extremely hostile environment, 1870 s- influx of secret terrorists organization gained momentum. **the juxtaposition of douglass fighting for black men to have the vote to liquidate slavery vs. stanton s racist ideology for the reasoning behind the need for the white women s vote: quotes: In refusing to defend their black sister, the nawsa symbolically abandoned the entire black people at the moment of their most intense suffering since emancipation. Mother s of the race. (little distinction was made between the race and the anglo-saxon race) Surely the humanitarian spirit of this country, which reaches to denounce the treatment of, will not longer refuse to lift its voice on this subject.