Characters
The main character of the book who runs away from home to find her older sister.
Who is Violet?
Chloe and other suffragists would wear these specific colored roses to show their support for women's right to vote.
What are yellow roses?
The specific town where Violet and her parents live before she runs away.
What is Susquehanna?
The dangerous method of travel Myrtle and Violet use to sneak away from the Girls' Training Institute.
What is riding the rails (or hopping a freight train)?
The literal item Violet’s parents bought for Chloe's future marriage that Chloe instead uses to store her independent belongings.
What is the Hope Chest?
Violet's older sister who left home to become a nurse and fight for women's suffrage.
Who is Chloe?
The number of the amendment that granted women the right to vote, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The destination where Violet is originally trying to find her sister at the beginning of the book.
What is Washington D.C.?
The final destination city in Tennessee where the climactic political battle takes place.
What is Nashville?
The communication method Mr. Martin forces Violet to use to contact her parents, which costs her valuable pocket money.
What is a telegram?
The girl Violet meets at the Girls' Training Institute who runs away with her.
Who is Myrtle?
This Tennessee legislator cast the deciding "yes" vote for women's suffrage after receiving a letter from his mother.
Who is Harry Burn?
The city where Chloe's letters were supposedly being sent from.
What is New York City?
The racially segregated train car that Myrtle is forced to ride in due to Jim Crow laws.
What is the colored car (or Jim Crow car)?
The specific documents Violet steals out of her mother's roll-top desk to track down her missing sister.
What are Chloe's letters?
A friendly traveler the girls meet at the train station who teaches them how to travel as hobos.
Who is Hobie?
This dedicated suffragist organized the nationwide fight and formed the National Woman's Party.
Who is Alice Paul?
The final state the characters travel to for the decisive special legislative session on women's suffrage.
What is Tennessee?
The hotel in Nashville that serves as the chaotic headquarters for both the Suffragists and the Antis.
What is the Hermitage Hotel?
The item of clothing Violet must constantly mend, wash, and worry about because it is the only one she has while traveling.
What is her blue gingham dress?
The immigrant man falsely accused of treason who marries Chloe at the end of the novel.
Who is Mr. Martin?
These two young girls, alongside the adult suffragists, traveled on the train to Tennessee to advocate for the cause.
Who are Violet and Myrtle?
Where Mr. Martin, Chloe, and Myrtle end up moving together by the end of the story.
What is Alaska?
The specific item that Violet's mother keeps locked away in her desk that contains the clues to Chloe's locations.
What are Chloe's letters?
The piece of paper that Harry Burn famously pulled out of his coat pocket during the legislative session to change his vote.
What is the letter from his mother?