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Seneca Falls Convention
After the Seneca Falls Convention, women split over the 14th and 15th amendments. They granted equal rights including the right to vote to Afican American men but excluded women.
Susan B. Anthony lead the proponent of woman suffrage. In 1869, hr and Elizabet Cady Stanton foundd the National Women Sufferage Association (NWSA) This united with another group in 1890, and formed the NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association) -
Illegal Voting
Sarah B Anthony and other women attempted to vote illegally at least 150 times in ten states snd the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Carry Nation worked for prohibitoon by walking into saloons, scolding customers and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Uniion (WCTU) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. The members of the WCTU would walk into saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling Alcohol. The WCTU became the largest women's group in the nation's history -
NAWSA Formed
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony -
Carrue Chapman Catt & New NAWSA Tactics
When Catt returned to the NAWSA she concentrated on five tactics.
1. Painstaking Organizations
2. Close ties between local, state, and national workers
3. Establish a wide base of support
4. Cautious Lobbying
5. Gracious, ladylike behavior -
19th Amendment
Congress passed the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
It took 72 years for women to get this amendment passed, starting at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848