In the wake of the Civil War, however, reformers sought to avoid marginalization as âsocial issuesâ zealots by focusing their message exclusively on the right to vote. 3 In 1869 two distinct factions of the suffrage movement emerged. Stanton and Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), which directed its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women.
1 Since areas of continental do not shrink and some oceans open, some area must be lost because the Earth isn't changing size overall. Again, the accommodation is in the ocean - as much as one ocean grows in area, another must be losing area.  Oceanic lithosphere is lost by subduction at some plate margins.
Any plate may consist of ocean floor and/or part of a continent or islands. The boundaries between plates are the mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed and plates move apart; ocean trenches and young mountains, where plates come together and older ocean crust is overridden and returned to the interior.