How did the women's suffrage movement in South Carolina differ from the women's suffrage movement in the nation as a whole? Nationally, the women's suffrage movement was successful; in South Carolina, the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote failed to be ratified.

Progressives across the nation supported voting rights for all women;
Progressives in South Carolina advocated the vote for white women only.

The South Carolina legislature ratified the 19th Amendment prior to World War I; other states across the nation ratified the amendment after World War I.

Women suffragettes in South Carolina focused on voting in local elections only: the national suffrage movement focused on voting in state and national
elections.