Text 1: Historian Park argues that the suffragist movement's victory in 1920 reflected the persuasive power of decades of careful organizing. Through state-level campaigns, parades, lobbying, and eventually civil disobedience, suffragists transformed public opinion until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment became politically inevitable.
Text 2: Historian Singh accepts the importance of organizing but argues that World War I was the decisive accelerant. The visible contributions of women to the war effort made longstanding arguments against suffrage politically untenable. Without the war, Singh contends, ratification might have come much later.
The authors most clearly disagree about
- A
whether the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
- B
whether suffragists organized.
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the relative importance of long-term organizing versus the war's immediate impact.
- D
whether women contributed to the war effort.
Explanation
Both accept organizing, ratification, and wartime contributions. They differ on relative importance. B captures the dispute.