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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was a leading proponent of woman suffrage. She found the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA). NWSA united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). -
Illegal Voting
Susan and other women attempted to vote in 10 states and the District of Columbia, atleast 150 times. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
(Woman's Christian Temperance Union). The women were going into saloons, tryiing to urge the Saloonkeepers to stop selling alcoholic beverages, They began opening kindergartens for immigrants. Also, visiting inmates in prison and asylums,and working for suffrage. As women apart of the group tried to close aloonaa to cure society's problems, tention arose between them and many immigrants. -
NAWSA Formed
Anothony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found National women Suffrage association (NWSA), which united with the group NAWSA. (National American Women Suffrage Association) in 1890. The prominent leaders of NAWSA was Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, tha author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." They faced constant opposition. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Carrie Capmann Catt was the president of NAWSA. She served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presideny in 1915. When she returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she concentrated on five tactics.
1) Painstaking Organization
2) Close ties betwwen local, state, and national workers
3) Establishing a wide base of support
4) Cautious lobbying
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19th Amendment
Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment which gave women the right to vote. The final ratification for the amendment was in August 1920,
