Read the following excerpt from Carrie Chapman Catt's address to Congress, Women's Suffrage, 1917.
Woman suffrage is inevitable. Suffragists knew it before November 4, 1917, opponents afterward. Three
distinct causes made it inevitable.
Use context clues or a dictionary to select the best definition for Catt's use of suffrage.
© an advancement
a petitions
a right to vote
an ecclesiastical prayer