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  • 3 - The Agrarian Revolt, Populism, and the Gilded Age Party System

  • from Part I - The “Party Period”
  • Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    Movements and Parties
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 50-72

  • Summary

    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.