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Susan B.Anthony
A leading proponent of woman suffrage, the right to vote, said " I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia -
Carry Nation and the WTCU
Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. Womans Christian Temeperance Union WCTU became the largest womens group in the nations history. -
NAWSA Formed
NWSA, National women Suffrage association, united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAWSA leaders included Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Carrie Chapman served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed presidency in 1915. She concentrated on five tactics, painstaking organization; clos ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; catuious lobbying, gracious, ladylike behavior -
19th Amendment
Granting women to vote, the amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after woman had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848
