Marion W. Roydhouse - Votes for Women! the American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment

VOTES FOR WOMEN!
THE AMERICAN
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT AND
THE NINETEENTH
AMENDMENT

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VOTES FOR WOMEN!
THE AMERICAN
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT AND
THE NINETEENTH
AMENDMENT

A REFERENCE GUIDE

Marion W. Roydhouse

Guides to Historic Events in America
Randall M. Miller, Series Editor

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Roydhouse, Marion W. (Marion Winifred), 1949- author.

Title: Votes for women! : the American woman suffrage movement and the Nineteenth Amendment : a reference guide / Marion W. Roydhouse.

Description: 1 Edition. | Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2020. | Series: Guides to historic events in America | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020008672 (print) | LCCN 2020008673 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440836701 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781440836718 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: WomenSuffrageUnited StatesHistory. | SuffragistsUnited StatesHistory. | Women's rightsUnited StatesHistory. | CYAC: United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment.

Classification: LCC HQ1236.5.U6 R69 2020 (print) | LCC HQ1236.5.U6 (ebook) | DDC 305.420973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008672

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008673

ISBN: 978-1-4408-3670-1 (print)

978-1-4408-3671-8 (ebook)

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CONTENTS

P erhaps no people have been more difficult to comprehend than the Americans. As J. Hector St. Jean de Crvecoeur asked during the American Revolution, countless others have echoed ever afterWhat then is this American, this new man? What, indeed? Americans then and after have been, and remain, a people in the process of becoming. They have been, and are, a people in motion, whether coming from a distant shore, crossing the mighty Mississippi, or packing off to the suburbs, and all the while following the promise of an American dream of realizing life, liberty, and happiness. The directions of such movement have changed, and sometimes the trajectory has taken a downward arc in terms of civil war and economic depression, but always the process has continued.

Making sense of that American experience demands attention to critical momentseventsthat reflected and affected American ideas and identities. Although Americans have constructed an almost linear narrative of progress from the days of George Washington to today in relating their common history, they also have marked that history by recognizing particular events as pivotal in explaining who and why they believed and acted as they did at particular times and over time. Such events have forced Americans to consider closely their true interests. They also have challenged their commitment to professed beliefs of freedom and liberty, equality and opportunity, tolerance and generosity. Whether fighting for independence or empire, drafting and implementing a frame of government, reconstructing a nation divided by civil war, struggling for basic rights and the franchise, creating a mass-mediated culture, standing up for capitalism and democracy and against communism, to name several critical developments, Americans have understood that historic events are more than just moments. They are processes of change made clear through particular events but not bound to a single moment or instance. Such thinking about the character and consequence of American history informs this new series of Guides to Historic Events in America.

Drawing on the latest and best literature, and bringing together narrative overviews and critical chapters of important historic events, the books in the series function as both reference guides and informed analyses to critical events that have shaped American life, culture, society, economy, and politics and fixed Americas place in the world. The books do not promise a comprehensive reading and rendering of American history. Such is not yet, if ever, possible for any single work or series. Nor do they chart a single interpretive line, though they share common concerns and methods of inquiry. Each book stands alone, resting on the expertise of the author and the strength of the evidence. At the same time, taken together the books in this new series will provide a dynamic portrait of that ongoing work in progress, America itself.

Each book follows a common format, with a chronology, historical overview, topical chapters on aspects of the historical event under examination, a set of biographies of key figures, selected essential primary documents, and an annotated bibliography. As such, each book holds many uses for students, teachers, and the general public wanting and needing to know the principal issues and the pertinent arguments and evidence on significant events in American history. The combination of historical description and analysis, biographies, and primary documents also moves readers to approach each critical event from multiple perspectives and with a critical eye. Each book in its structure and content invites students and teachers, in and out of the classroom, to consider and debate the character and consequence(s) of the historic event in question. Such debate invariably will bring readers back to that most critical and never-ending question of what was/is the American and what does, and must, America mean.

Randall M. Miller

Saint Josephs University, Philadelphia

V oter registration, voter identification laws, gerrymandering of Congressional districts, access to the polling booth on election dayall are questions with which we are familiar in our current political climate. Few consider women voting to be an issue for participatory democracy in todays America. Yet, it took from the founding of the nation until 1920 before women could vote in every state of the nation.