Which of the following best describes the main motivating factor that encouraged women to fight for suffrage in the 1800s and early 1900s?
they felt they had a civic duty to improve society.
they felt their rights to earn money were being attacked.
they felt men had done a poor job of running things so far.
they felt afraid of the sitting congress's attitude toward women.

  They felt they had a civic duty to improve society.

Explanation:

  The women´s suffrage campaign began soon after the end of the Civil War. When the majority of the states allowed only white men to vote. The movement argues the idea of "true womanhood", the idea that the woman had to be pious, submissive and only concerned about home and family.

  Then in a convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, the delegates there agreed that women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identity.

  Finally after almost one hundred years of struggle, in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified declaring that women deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

  I hope this answer helps you.

pepin the short[a] (german: pippin der kurze, french: pépin le bref, c. 714 – 24 september 768) was the king of the franks from 751 until his death. he was the first of the carolingians to become king.[b][2]

the younger son of the frankish prince charles martel and his wife rotrude, pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical education he had received from the monks of st. denis. succeeding his father as the mayor of the palace in 741, pepin reigned over francia jointly with his elder brother carloman. pepin ruled in neustria, burgundy, and provence, while his brother carloman established himself in austrasia, alemannia and thuringia. the brothers were active in suppressing revolts led by the bavarians, aquitanians, saxons, and the alemanni in the early years of their reign. in 743, they ended the frankish interregnum by choosing childeric iii, who was to be the last merovingian monarch, as figurehead king of the franks.