Women's Suffrage

Susan B Anthony

Dec 2, 1848

Susan B Anthony said "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women." She then founded aother group called National Women's Suffrage Association. (NWSA)
Susan B Anthony was a leading proponent of woman suffrage.

Illegal Voting

Dec 2, 1871

Susan B Anthony said "aren't women citizens too?"
Susan and other women tested that quesiton by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. Later, the supreme court ruled that women were indeed citizens- but then denied them the right to vote.

Carry Nation and the WCTU

Dec 2, 1874

WCTU stands for Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. WCTU members followed Willard's "do everything" sloganand began opening kindergartens for immagrants, visiting inmates in prisons and working for suffrage.

NAWSA

Dec 2, 1890

In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Assiciation (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA.

Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

Dec 2, 1915

The Five Tactics:
1) painstaking organization
2) close ties between local, state, and national workers.
3) establishing a wide base of support
4) catious lobbying
5) gracious, ladylike behavior.
Susan B Anthony's successor, Carrie Chapman Catt, came up with these 5 tactics.

19th Amendment

Dec 2, 1919

In 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1948.