The women's suffrage movement began in World War I, the women were working in the factories while the men were deployed, later using this to help with their cause by showing they were just as patriotic and just as deserving. The women also based their arguments off of the Declaration of Sentiments and other various important documents.
They used types of commercial campaigns, hunger strikes to gain dramatic publicity, agreeing that they were in fact <em>different</em> from the men making them a helpful benefit. The women also showed how their domesticity was a political virtue, using the franchise to create a purer, more moral “maternal commonwealth.” Many middle-class white people were swayed by the argument that white women would “ensure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained.”
