Question

During the Progressive Era, what methods did women use to try to get the right to vote? (1 point)

📝 Responses
( ) They limited their reform activities to private meetings at home.

( ) They organized public protests and lobbied politicians for support.

( ) They focused their efforts only on local and state elections.

( ) They waited for the main political parties to offer them support.

Answer 1

(X) They organized public protests and lobbied politicians for support.

Suffragists held marches, rallies, pickets, petition drives, and lobbied state and federal lawmakers (e.g., NAWSA and Alice Paul's NWP) to win voting rights.