Which social reformer campaigned for women's rights, temperance, and abolition, and helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association?

• A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• B. Sojourner Truth
• C. Ida B. Wells
• D. Susan B. Anthony

Answer: (D)

This question tests understanding of who organized the movement for women’s suffrage and tied it to other reform efforts in the 19th century. Susan B. Anthony stands out because she actively campaigned for women’s rights, championed the suffrage cause nationwide, and linked that work to the temperance and abolition movements. In 1869 she helped establish the National Woman Suffrage Association as a national vehicle to push for a constitutional amendment granting women the vote, a move that required building networks, fundraising, and sustained public advocacy across the country. Her leadership and organizational efforts were essential to creating a unified national effort for suffrage, which is why she is the best answer. Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells were influential reformers in abolition and civil rights, but they did not co-found the NAWSA, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, while a key ally and cofounder in the broader suffrage work, is not the single figure highlighted by the prompt as the one who helped form the national organization.