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Gathering of the Seneca Falls
Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions,” Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Among the 13 resolutions set forth in Stanton’s “Declaration” was the goal of achieving the “sacred right of franchise.” -
Alliance as women’s rights activists
They agitated against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women -
Citizenship rights and granting voting rights
they unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to include women in the provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendments -
Created (NWSA)
Stanton and Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association, its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women. -
Created (AWSA)
Lucy Stone created American Woman Suffrage Association;rejected the NWSA’s agenda as being racially divisive and organized with the aim to continue a national reform effort at the state level -
The first state to grant women voting
The first state to grant women complete voting rights was Wyoming -
Introduced in Congress a women’s suffrage amendment
California Senator Aaron Sargent introduced in Congress a women’s suffrage amendment in 1878, the overall campaign stalled. -
Neither group attracted broad support
The AWSA it had only a regional reach. The NWSA relied on its statewide network but also drew recruits from around the nation -
a surge of volunteerism Of women’s
The determination of these women to expand their sphere of activities further outside the home helped legitimate the suffrage movement and provided new momentum for the NWSA and the AWSA. -
Created (NAWSA)
Support of women activists ,Women’s Trade Union League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the National Consumer’s League. -
NAWSA-Colorado
NAWSA was founded in Colorado -
NAWSA- Utah,Idaho
NAWSA was founded Utah,Idaho -
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Extended the franchise to women
the NAWSA intensified its lobbying efforts and additional states extended the franchise to women: Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon. -
Four states allowed women to vote.
Three other western states—Colorado , Utah , and Idaho followed , prior to 1910, only these four states allowed women to vote. -
Alice Paul- the rival Congressional Union
A young Quaker activist who had experience in the English suffrage movement, formed the rival Congressional Union (later named the National Woman’s Party) -
Legislature granted women the right to vote
The state legislature granted women the right to vote in 1913; this marked the first such victory for women in a state east of the Mississippi River -
Montana granted women the right to vote
Granted women the right to vote, thanks in part to the efforts of another future Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin. -
Alice Paul
helped resuscitate the push for a federal equal rights amendment, and relentlessly attacked the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson for obstructing the extension of the vote to women. -
Catt-“Winning Plan”
Carrie Chapman Catt,whose “Winning Plan” strategy called for disciplined and relentless efforts to achieve state referenda on the vote, especially in non-Western states. -
President Wilson and Montana’s Jeannette
President Wilson (a convert to the suffrage cause) urged Congress to pass a voting rights amendment, when Montana’s Jeannette Rankin was sworn into the 65th Congress on April 2, as the first woman to serve in the national legislature. -
Key victories
when Arkansas and New York granted partial and full voting rights, respectively. -
House of Representatives passed a voting
House of Representatives initially passed a voting rights amendment, but the Senate did not follow suit before the end of the 65th Congress. -
Congress approval of vote
Congress with the House again voting its approval by a wide margin on and the Senate concurring on June 14, 1919. -
Providing full voting rights for women
Amendment, providing full voting rights for women nationally, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
