Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, argued that it was the duty of U. S. women to help lift the inhabitants of its new island possessions up from barbarism to civilization, a project that would presumably demonstrate the capacity of U. S. women for full citizenship and political rights. Catt, like many suffragists in her day, was well versed in the language of