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Women's Suffrage

By Kenyatta Smith2

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    After voting illagelly int he presidential election of 1872, Anthony was fined $100 at her trial. "Not a penny shall go to this unjust claim," she defiantly declared. She never paid the fine.

  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote restrictions on child labor.

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Carry Nation and the WCTU
    Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and uring saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    Josephine Ruffin identified the mission of the African-American women's club movment as 'The moral education of the race with which we are identified."

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she concetrated on five tactics: (1) painsking organization;(2) close ties between local,state, and national workers;(3)astablishing a wide base of support;(4)cautious lobbying; AND (5) gracious, ladylike behavior.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Granting 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.