from Part I - The “Party Period”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2021
The women’s suffrage campaign was part of a long movement that began with women’s participation in abolitionism, and temperance, and merged with the labor movement and progressivism. Though its most visible success was the passage of the 19th amendment, this build upon state and local campaigns, especially in the west, where the weakness of the party system gave womens’ groups a footing. But it was only with women’s support for World War One that mass support for the suffrage was one, followed by a shift of women’s activism into the party system and into policy activity.
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