The women's rights movement and suffrage were given a boost by the Civil War. Why is this true?

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Micheal

13 February, 01:03

The women's rights movement and suffrage were given a boost by the Civil War. Why is this true?

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Kyra Hinton · Answer 1

It's not so much that the women's rights movement and suffrage were given a boost by the Civil War itself, but more by the end of the war, since amendments were passed that gave African Americans voting rights--making women think that they could attain them as well.