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Suffering Until Suffrage

32.The war split the women's movement into two groups: progressive-era feminists who were pacifists and those women who supported the war. The pacifists were represented by the National Woman's party led by Alice Paul. The war supporters were represented by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

33. The war momentum let President Wilson see the amount of work women had put into society for the war effort. He saw this as "a vital necessary war measure." The vote for woman suffrage went to the state level for gov't. The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920. It provided all American women the innate right to vote.

34. Congress affirmed, with the passage of the Sheppard-Toward Act of 1921, that it supported women's efforts in their roles as mothers. The Act provided classes instructing women on maternal and child health care.

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