women's suffrage

By ngameh

  • Susan B.Anthony

    Susan B.Anthony
    Sunsan B.Anthony was leading proponent of woman, the right to vote. In 1869, Anthony and Eizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National women suffrange Association.

  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    For voting they have three part strategy for suffrage. first, women have the right to vote. They achieved a victory in the territory of Wyoming in 1869, and by the 1890s Utah, Colorado, and Idaho had also grated voting rights to women. After 1896, effort in other states failed. Second, women purshed court case to tesr the fourteen Amendment. Third, women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grat women the vote.

  • NAWSA Formed

    NAWSA Formed
    In 1890, women sufferage faced contant opposition. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for resteiction on child labor. many men simply feared the changing role of women in society. Other prominent leaders included Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, the authuor of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Carry Nation and the WCTU
    WCTU (women Christain Temperance Union) become the largest group in the nation's history in 1879 after Union was trasfer by Willard. WCTU follow Willard "do everything" and began open kindergartens for immigrants, visiting inmats in prison and asylums, and working for suffrage.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    Catt and the national movenment Susan B. Anthony's successor as president of NAWSA was Carri Chapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915. When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, She concentrated on five tactics. (1) painstaking orgnization, (2) close ties between local, state, and national workers, (3) establishing a wide base of support , (4) cautious lobbying , and (5) gracious, ladylike behaviour.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    In 1919,Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, grating women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.