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Seneca Falls Convention
The SFC helped bring the US closer to womens suffrage by approving all parts of the declaration including a resolution calling for women to have the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony siad "i would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for the women." many men thought that the role would change in women in society. -
Illegal Voting
Illegal voting helped bring the US to womens suffrage by causing constant opposition. the liquor industry feared that women would votwe in support of prohibition while the textile industry woried tht women would vote for restrictions on child labor. many men feared of the changing role of women in society- -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
the WCTU helped bring the US closer to achieving women's suffrage by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol. they transformed the Union by Frances Willard from a small midwestern religious group in 1879 to a national organization. the was the larges womens group in nations history. -
NAWSA formed
NAWSA formed causing the US closer to womens suffrage by trying three aproaches to their own objective. first they tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. Secondly they pursued court cases to test the fourteenth amendment which denied their male citezens to vote and would lose all representation, thirdly women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant the women to vote. president theodore roosevelt supported. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and new NAWSA tactics
the New NAWSA tactics caused womens suffrage by painstaking organization, close ties between local, state, and national workers, establishing a wide base support, cautious lobbying and gracious lady like behavior. these efforts and americas involvement in WW1 finally made suffrage inevitable. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. the amendment won final ratification in august 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the seneca falls convention in 1848