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Susan B. Anthony
Women split over the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to voe to African American men, but excluded women. Susan B. Anthony a leading proponent of women suffrage, the right to vote said "I" would sooner cut off my right hand thsn ask the ballot for the black man and not for women. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question that by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten differemt states and the district of columbia. The supreme court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citezens- but then denied that citezenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The WCTU reform activities, like those of the settlement house movement, provided women with expanded public roles, which they used to jusitfy giving women votiing rights. In the 1890's Carry Nation worked for prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor. -
NAWSA Formed
Women siffrage faced constant opposition. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the tetile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on child labor. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Susan B. Anthonys successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915. When Catt returned to NAWSA after prganizing New York's Women Surrfage Party, she concentrated on five tactics. 1) Painstaking @) close ties between local, state, and national workers 3) establishing a wide base of support 4) cautious lobbying and 5) gracious, ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
In 1919, congress passsed the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
