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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention resulted with Women spliting over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women. This led to the founding of the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Which united with another group in1890 to become the National American Suffrage Association. They faced never ending opposition. The Liqour ind. feared voting for prohibition, etc. -
Illegal Voting
Illegal Votng was part of the Sufferagists, " Three- Part Strategy For Sufferage." They acted by pursuing court cases to test the Fourteenth Amendment, which declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation. So in 1871-1872 Susan B. Anthony and other women attempted to vote atleast 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. In 1875, the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens but denied their right to vote. -
Carry Nation & the WCTU
In the 1890s, Carry Nation worked for prohibition, and believed that alcohol was undermining American morals. Carry along with other Prohibitionists joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and advanced the group. They acted by walking into saloons, scolding the customers, and using a hatchet to destroy bottles of liqour. These actions provided women with expanded public roles, which they used to justify giving women voting rights. -
NAWSA Formed
After the Seneca Fall Colnvention resulted in right to vote for African American men but not women, the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Which united with another group to form the NAtional American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA. They faced never ending opposition. The Liqour ind. feared voting for prohibition, etc. Men feared the changing role of women in society. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
When Carrie Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she concentrated on five tactics.
1. Painstalking organizations; 2. Close ties between local, state, and nation workers; 3. establishing a wide base of support; 4. Cautious lobbying, and gracious, ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amenment, granting women the right to vote. It won final ratification in August 1920- 72 years after women had first conened and demanded the right to vote.