Which passage uses a transition word or phrase to connect two related ideas? Congresswoman Martha Griffith filed a petition to get the ERA released from committee so that
it could be debated and voted on. The petition got enough signatures, but some lawmakers
added some language that would exempt women from the draft, and this killed the bill for that
year.
Alice Paul, a well-known activist in the suffragist movement, first proposed the idea of a
women's rights amendment. It was called the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" in honor of another
famous suffragist.
The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that "all
men are created equal." However, not all Americans have been treated equally since the country
was founded.
It has taken almost a century for the ERA to get this far, and its fate remains unclear. This
suggests that there is significant opposition either to the idea of women's full equality or to law
itself.