[Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook. Also, many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as they were in the original.] [Illustration: MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. President of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance from its founding in 1904 and of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1900-1904 and from 1915. Standing in an automobile on the way from the railroad station in New York after the campaign for ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment was completed by Tennessee. (See page 652.)] THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE EDITED BY IDA HUSTED HARPER ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATE AND PHOTOGRAVURE ENGRAVINGS _IN SIX VOLUMES_ VOLUME VI 1900--1920 IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY EVERY CITIZEN HAS A VOTE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION INTRODUCTION WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE STATES OF THE UNION In the preceding volume a full account is given of the forty years' continuous effort to secure an amendment to the Federal Constitution which would confer full suffrage on all the women of the United States possessing the qualifications required of men. Antedating the beginning of this effort by thirty years was the attempt to enfranchise women through the amendment of State constitutions. After 1869 the two movements were contemporaneous, each dependent on the other, the latter a long process but essential in some measure to the success of the former. There is no way by which the progress of the movement for woman suffrage can be so clearly seen as by a comparison of the State chapters in this volume with the State chapters in Volume IV, which closed with 1900. The former show the remarkable development of the organized work for woman suffrage, especially in the last decade, which brought the complete victory.