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Seneca Falls Convention
First women convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14th and 15th Amendments. Some thought these Amendments should include women. -
First Strategy
Suffragist leaders tried three approaches to achieve their objectiive. First, they tried to grant women the right to vote. They achieved a victory in the territory of Wyoming in 1869. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question (Weren't women citizens too?) by attempting to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the district of Columbia. -
Supreme Court decision
The Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA formed
The National Women Suffrage Association united with another group tobecome the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Servered from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915. -
Triangle Shirtwasit Fire
Ranks grew after 146 workers. mostly young women died in a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. -
New NAWSA Tatics
When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she focused o five tactics.
1. Painstaking organization
2. close ties between local, state, and national workers
3. Establising a wide base of support
4. Cautions lobbying
5. Gracious, ladylike behavior -
More radical tactics
Lucy Burns and Alice Paul formed their own radical organization, The Congressional Union, and its successor the Nationa Woman's Party. Pressured the federal government to pass a suffrage amendment. Paul and her followers mounted a round-the-clock-pickeet line around the white house -
19th Amendment
congress passed the 19th amendment, granting the women the right to vote
