The correct answers are B) by participating in hunger strikes and C) by chaining themselves to railings.
The ways in which the suffragettes tried to further their cause were by participating in hunger strikes and C) by chaining themselves to railings.
Everything started when Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the famous Seneca Falls Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. This convention started the women's suffrage movement in the United States and was supported by Lucretia Mott and Jane Hunt. Finally, after many struggles, women gain the right to vote in 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed.
