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Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls convention approved all parts of the declaration including a reasolution calling for women to have the right to vote. This convetion had over 300 women. This lead to Susan B. Anthony leading proponent of woman suffarge and the right to vote -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony led the proponent of woman suffage, the right to vote. In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeht Cady Stanton had founded the Nation Women Suffrage Association which united with another group in 1890 become the National American Woman sufferage Association. They illegally voted because they weren't aloud to. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The Woman's Chstistian Temperance Union went after the prohibition. Members of WCTU went through with their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloon keepers to stop seeling alcohol. The uinion was transformed by Frances Willard from a small midwestern religious group in 1879. The WCTU follwed what Willard wanted. -
NAWSA formed
the NAWSA was formed due to the pressing together NWSA with NACW. They faced costant opposition. the liquor industry feared that women would vote in support og prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote restrictions on child labor, other man feared women having control. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt who served form 1900 to 1904 and resumed in 1915. Her tatics were: Painstaking organization, close ties between local, state, and national wokers, establishing a wide base of support, cautious lobbying, and gracious ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
Patrotic American women who headed committees, knitted socks for soldiers and sold liberty bonds. Congress passed th 19th amendemnt granting the women the right to vote. The amendment won final retification in August 1920-72 years afer women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848