Question

When, in 1871, I asked [an important politician] to declare the power of the United States Constitution to protect women in their right to vote as he had done for black men he handed me a copy of all his speeches during that reconstruction period, and said:

"Put 'sex' where I have 'race' or 'color,' and you have here the best and strongest argument I can make for woman."
What two issues is Susan B. Anthony connecting in the passage?
A. Women's suffrage and the rights of African Americans
B. The fight for suffrage and the Civil War
C. The rights of women and the privileges of men
D. Civil rights and the treatment of women

Answer 1

a. Women's suffrage and the rights of African-Americans

Answer 2

After reading the passage and analyzing the two issues mentioned and connected by Susan B. Anthony in it, we can say they are the following:

A. Women's suffrage and the rights of African Americans.

Women's suffrage

Susan B. Anthony was a social reformer born in 1820. She fought for women's right to vote, that is, the suffrage, and was even arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election.

In the passage we are analyzing here, she draws a connection between their struggle to get the right to vote and the fight of African Americans for freedom, respect, and equality. The politician to whom she spoke told her to use the same arguments he had used for African Americans. In the end, their purposes were similar - to obtain rights that ascertain their equal status as humans.

Learn more about Susan B. Anthony here:

https://brainly.com/question/14130938