During the 1850s, the women's rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. ... In 1869, a new group called the National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. They began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Americans were searching for natural gold and new resources. Some believed the Indians were keeping these resources for themselves. Many Indians were evicted during this time.
