Hiram Johnson managed to get the California Proposition 4 passed which was a constitution amendment to the constitution of California which gave Women the power to vote. This was in 1911, years before the 19th amendment was passed on a national level and before women from all around the United States of America got general suffrage rights.
The larger goal was uniting Americans around the war effort.
Cracking down on dissent would be a negative action in support of the larger, positive goal the government sought. The government wanted a fully united public in support of the war, and so it put out the message that that freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
The correct answer is the second option - <span>Adams believed that women had traditionally been denied a voice in society’s affairs, and that this should change.
She says in this excerpt that men should treat women fairly and give them the rights they deserve, or else they will start a rebellion and fight for their rights which they should have gotten a long time ago. She was one of the first feminists who wanted women and men to be equal.
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