The way in which the woman suffrage amendment was passed through Congress and ratified by the states insured that it would not be the basis for other feminist reforms after 1920. Except for the members of the National Womans Party, the leaders of the suffrage movement accepted the existing political system as they found it, advanced conservative reasons for giving women the vote, and posed no challenge to the arrangements in society that kept white women and minority women as second-class citizens.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Your answer must provide relevant examples from the reading.
