Votes for women

Women's Suffrage

By ChristianS207

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She said "I Would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women."

  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    They illegaly placed their ballots into elections.

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Carry Nation and the WCTU
    Worked for prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor.

  • NAWSA Formed

    NAWSA Formed
    National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe (Author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic)

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    She served as president of the NAWSA and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Congress passed the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Won final ratification in August 1920. 72 years of hard protesting.