One of the suffragists' more successful justifications was the "purity" argument that
A) women's moral superiority would clean up politics if they were given the vote.
B) because women were no more pure or impure than men, they had nothing to lose by voting.
C) women must first purify politics through religion, then they should get the vote.
D) women's moral superiority would be endangered by voting unless illiterate blacks and immigrants were disfranchised.

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The "purity" argument posited that women's moral superiority would help clean up politics, making it a key justification used by suffragists to argue for women's right to vote.

One of the Suffragists' More Successful Justifications Was the "Purity