Question

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

Answer 1

(A) It showed people that women could accomplish a lot of things away from home.

Explanation: during the civil war women participated in a wide variety of home front activities such as munitions production and other defense industry work, performing non-traditional jobs usually handled by men, including raising funds through liberty loan drives and leading the effort to produce and conserve food needed by Soldiers overseas.

Answer 2

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.