MAP ACTIVITY
MAP 22.4 Women’s Voting Rights before the Nineteenth Amendment The long campaign for women’s voting rights reversed the pioneer epic that moved from east to west. From its first successes in the new democratic West, suffrage rolled eastward toward the entrenched, male-dominated public life of the Northeast and South.
READING THE MAP: What was the first state to grant woman suffrage? How many states extended full voting rights to women before 1914? How many extended these rights during World War I (1914–1918)?
CONNECTIONS: Suffragists redirected their focus during the war. What strategies did they use then?