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Women's Suffrage

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She was a leading proponent of women sufferage, the right to vote. Susan and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Women Sufferage Association ( NWSA ).
  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question ( The fourteenth amendment declared that states denying their male citizens would loose congressional represntation. Weren't women citizens too? ) by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and The District of Columbia.
  • Carry Nation and The WCTU

    Carry Nation and The WCTU
    The WCTU became the largest womens group in the nation's history. The WCTU spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol.
  • NAWSA Formed

    NAWSA Formed
    The National American Womens Sufferage Association was the result of the combinding of two former organisations ( one of them being NWSA ). Some prominent leaders were Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    The Five 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

    19th Amendment
    The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.