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Susan B. Anthony
A leading proponent of woman suffrage. Her and other women voted at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. Then Susan was fined $100 at her trial but ended up not having to pay it. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B Anthony and other women voted atleast 150 times in 10 states and the District of Columbia when women didnt have the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was undermining american morals. Founded in Cleveland in 1874, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. These group members would enter saloons and sing, pray, and urge saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. -
NAWSA Formed
In 1869 Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady had founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
1) Painstaking organization
2) Close ties between local, state, and national workers
3) Establishing a wide base of support
4) Cautious lobbying
5) Gracious, ladylike behavior -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote which ended all this 72 years after the first convened and demanded the vote at Seneca Falls covention in 1848
