How did the Civil War help the cause of women's suffrage? (1) It showed that while women worked hard, they could not do work as
well as men.(2) So many men died in battle, there were not enough available to fill different jobs.(3) Women were able to prove they could do many things to help outside the home. (4)It made everyone realize that women needed to have the right to vote immediately.
The American West was indeed a land of great opportunity from 1865 to 1900 in the sense that there was an abundance of land and resources available to all those willing to go west.
