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Susan B. Anthony
After voting illegally in the presidential election of 1872, Anthony was fined $100 at her trail. "Not a penny shall go to this unjust claim," She defiantly decared. She never paid the fine. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other woman tested that questioning by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that woman were indeed citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The WCTU reform activities, like those of the settlement house movement, provided woman with expanded public roles, which they used to justify giving woman voting rights. -
NAWSA Formed
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the Nation Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) , which united with another gorup in 1890 and became the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Woman Suffrage faced constant opposition. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Woman Suffrage Party, she concentrated on 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.They pressured federal government to pass a suffrage amendment. there efforts made suffrage inevitable. -
19th Amendment
Patriotic American Woman sold socks and libertys to soldiers, stating their patroitics. Government passed 19th Amendment, allowing woman to vote.
