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             When the Civil War began, the movement was put on hold temporarily. A
             woman's role became that of nurse, seamstress, farmer, worker, and so on. About four
             hundred women enlisted themselves to fight in the war as men. Some women went in
             disguised, and fought for our country without being recognized. When the war was
             finally over, and veterans returned to their households many women lost the jobs they had
             taken over, and if their husbands or sons had been killed at war they were left without
             money, homes, or possessions. With all of this going on Susan B. Anthony organized
             The New York Working Women's Protective Union in 1868, this union was made to
             protect women against unfair practices and employers.
             In 1870 the women's suffrage movement continued on standstill when the 15th
             Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It gave the right to vote to all
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