E-text prepared by Richard J. Shiffer and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. Also, the HTML version contains links to references in other volumes of _History of Woman Suffrage_ in the Project Gutenberg library. See 29878-h.htm or 29878-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29878/pg29878-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29878/29878-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as they were in the original. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. [Illustration: DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. Vice-President-at-Large of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1892-1904 and President 1904-1915.] THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Edited by IDA HUSTED HARPER Illustrated with Copperplate and Photogravure Engravings In Six Volumes VOLUME V 1900-1920 AFTER SEVENTY YEARS CAME THE VICTORY National American Woman Suffrage Association Copyright, 1922, by National American Woman Suffrage Association PREFACE The History of Woman Suffrage is comprised in six volumes averaging about one thousand pages each, of which the two just finished are the last. While it is primarily a history of this great movement in the United States it covers to some degree that of the whole world. The chapter on Great Britain was prepared for Volume VI by Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the movement there for half a century. The accounts of the gaining of woman suffrage in other countries come from the highest authorities. Their contest was short compared to that in the two oldest countries on the globe with a constitutional form of government--the United States and Great Britain--and in the former it began nearly twenty years earlier than in the latter. The effort of women in the "greatest republic on earth" to obtain a voice in its government began in 1848 and ended in complete victory in 1920. In Great Britain it is not yet entirely accomplished, although in all her colonies except South Africa women vote on the same terms as men.