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The Movement Splits and Former Friends Choose Sides
As dissension grew, the women's suffrage movement splintered into two groups in 1869. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association with a focus on pressing for a federal amendment enfranchising women. Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell formed the competing American Woman Suffrage Association, which advocated state-by-state enfranchisement of women and avoided the National's efforts to link women's suffrage to trade unionism, divorce reform, and other issues. |