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Susan B. Anthony
Born to a strict Quaker family, SUsan B. Anthony was not allowed to enjoy tpical childhood entertainment such as music, games and toys. Her father insisted on self-discipline, education, and a strong belief system for all of his eight children. At an early age, Anthony developed a positive view of womanhood from a teacher.After voting illegally in the presidentail election of 1872, Anthony was finde $100 at her trial. She never paid this fine. -
Illegal Voting
Suffragist leaders tried three approaches to achieve their objectives. First they tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. They achieved a victory in the territory of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. Secod, women pursued court cases to test the Fourteenth Amendment, which declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation. Third, women pushed for a national constitiutional amenment to grant womn the vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union spearheaded the crusade from prohibition. Memers advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. -
NAWSA Formed
In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association which united with another group in 1890 to Become the National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and new NAWSA Tactics
Anthony's successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, She concentrated on five tactics: Painstaking organization, close ties between local, state, and national workers, establiishing a wide base of support, cautious lobbying and gracious, ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
Patriotic American women who headed committees, knitted socks for soldiers, and sold liberty bonds now claimed their overdue reward for supporing the war effort. In 1919, Congress passed the Ninteenth Amendment, Granting women the right to vote.
