resigned to attempts at "elevating woman's role in the domestic sphere." (5)In the years preceding the civil war and the progressive era of reconstruction that followed it, women's rights became women's suffrage and with the change in name came a reorganization of the suffrage movement. As postwar debates concerning black rights raged in congress, the opportunity to create a human suffrage platform arose. The similarity in ideologies and goals between the feminist and abolitionist causes allowed for a joining of the minds and the creation of mutually beneficial organizations. This joining of fates had unforeseen and problematic repercussions for the woman's suffrage movement. The break between these two distinct but similar groups caused much distress to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and for a time she railed against the enfranchisement of black men in advance of white women. The film One Woman , One Vote called this the Negros' hour, however Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony became more focused on their own agen

as an integral aspect of reconstruction. The group succeeded in seeing the 14th amendment through congress though they were deeply disturbed by the language of the document which specified that only male citizens were to be enfranchised.

Elizabeth Stanton was faithful to her ideal of universal human suffrage. Even after the AERA failure, she was willing to ally herself with like minded radical groups. She was excited by the prospect of the creation of a third party amalgamation of two other women's rights groups in order to challenge the Republican mood in Washington. Yet Anthony held fast to her conviction that feminist ideals she not be embroiled with any other political agenda. Suprisingly both women were wooed by promises of consideration and supported the Republicans in 1872. With Republican control assured, the reform minded mood left Washington and gave way to the end of reconstruction and put a hold on considerations of woman's rights that are clearly defined by the Constitution.

One of the most prominent questions of the reconstruction era was the enfranchisem

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