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.
In order of size, the largest of the oceans is the Pacific Ocean, followed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. To give an idea of the range of size, the Pacific Ocean extends for 60 million square miles, while the Arctic Ocean is a mere 5.4 million sq miles. The deepest point in the world's oceans is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. There is some disagreement as to its precise depth, but it is somewhere close to 36,000 feet, or 6.8 miles. In fact the trench may be even deeper than this because only about 10% of it has been explored.