WHEN or where the woman suffrage movement began is difficult to say. It is doubtless as old as the man suffrage movement, for in primitive society, in separated and distant parts of the world, tribes of unrelated races have had a simple form of democracy in which men and women each had an important, and in some cases an equal voice in tribal affairs. Platntc uciinlKr rrprlitprl with hpincr flip firci nrrmVipf of tll£^time to come when tneii and avomeu i&ouki unite, m forming" a government hasprl upon "ilie will of. the. neoole." Here and there, through the centuries intervening since that day, a solitary figure has arisen to repeat these views to a shocked and contemptuous world.In the struggle upward toward political freedom, men had to overcome the powerful influence of the universally believed " Divine Right of Kings" and Class to rule; women met the same opposition menTable of Contents A World Review of Woman Suffrage1587; PART II; Woman Suffrage in the United States1641; PART III; Manhood Suffrage in the United States1687; PART IV; The Present Political Status of Women in the United States 1737; PART V; The Greatest Foe of Woman Suffrage: The Organized; Liquor Traffic1760; Questions for Review and Subjects for Special Study----1781; PART VI; Facts and Figures Concerning Equal Suffrage1786; Progress of Equal Suffrage in the World1787; Growth of Municipal Suffrage1791; Growth of School Suffrage1791; Where Women Have Full Suffrage1792; Table of Woman Suffrage Dates1793; International Woman Suffrage1796; The United States1796; Status of Suffrage in the United States1799; How Women Can Obtain the Political Franchise 1800; How Women May Obtain Limited Franchise1801; Procedure for Constitutional Amendment1803; Suffrage Constitutional Amendments1804; Equal Suffrage and Congress1808; Legal Status of Mothers in the Guardianship of Children 1809; Facts Concerning the Full Suffrage