The two major women's suffrage organizations in the USA were the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association were merged in 1890 to form the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). When the organization started to gain support for its cause, the organization's members decided that excluding the African -American women would lead to greater support. NAWSA started to campaign for the enfranchisement of White Women only
So that the Panama Canal could be built. This would make it easier for the United States to move their ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa.
