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Susan B. Anthony
She started the NWSA and united them wiht the NAWSA. She worked with the liquor indistory because she wanted them to help her with getting women the right to vote. She voted illegaly to get her point across. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the Dsitrict of Columbia. They were ruled citenship but still were not aloud to vote. Women kept attemtping to get their right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Reformers wanted immigrants and dwellers to uplift themselves by improving their peronal belief. Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was changing american morals and they wanted it to chage. Carry nation worked for prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the custumors, and usong her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor. The WCTU provided women with expanded public roles which they used to help give women voting rights. -
NAWSA Formed
The National American Women Suffrage Association was created to try and get women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was the main leader but other prominent leadrers included Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. While the liquor movement feared that women would vote for the support of prohibition they began to pair up to say they wouldn't if the liquor company would be on their side for women voting. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
When Carrie Chapman Catt took over presidency after Susan B. Anthony she concentrated on 5 tactics:
1. painstacking organization
2. close ties between local, state, and national workers
3.establishing a wide base of support
4. cautious lobbying
5. gracious, ladylike behavior
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19th Amendment
The efforts, and America's involvement in World War 1, finally made suffrage inevitable. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment finally won ratification in August 1920, 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
