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In 1913 it became the Seventeenth Amendment. Women 's suffrage, insofar as it was motivated by a belief that it would have a stabilizing and purifying effect on public life, may also be seen as reflecting an antiparty impulse. Party bosses long opposed women's suffrage, in part because it was associated with the general cause of political reform but also because of uncertainty as to the effects of suddenly doubling the size of the electorate.

Principally, the women's suffrage movement was an extension of the drive to improve the legal and general social status of women in the second half of the nineteenth century. How and why did the power of the national government (a.k.a. the federal government) expand during the Progressive Era? How did the Progressive Era Amendments (especially 16, 17, and 19) change American government? include one historical fact or quotation from one of the optional module additional readings and resources and explain how it adds to our knowledge about one of the focus questions in this module. Please cite the additional resource you read (author, title for the secondary source).