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Seneca Falls Convention
The seneca fallls was the first womens convention to discuss voting rights. women were split over the 14th and 15th amendments, some thoiught these amendments should include women -
Wyoming
Anthony and elizabeth cady stanton found the national women sufferage association(NWSA), which later lead to the NAWSA National American Women Sufferage Association. These groups wanted to convince the stae legislatures to let women have the right to vote. They eventually talked wyoming into letting wemon vote however after 1869 other states denied the request -
Illegal Voting
The nwsa often asked the same question" arnt women citizens too?" by asking this question susan b anthony & other women tried voting about 150 times in 10 different states including washington dc in hopes of the government letting the women vote -
Supreme Court Desicion
the court ruled that women were citizens but denied the right to vote -
NAWSA formed
the national american women sufferage association, its basically a bigger organization than NWSA -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie was the successor as president of susan b anthony for the NAWSA. She served from 1900 until 1904 and resumed as president in 1915 -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
146 workers(mostly young women) died in the factory fire in New York City. This made ranks grow for the dangerous working coinditions. -
New NAWSA Tactics
After the returningof Carrie C. Catt., she focusedon five things:1. pain staking organizations 2. close ties between local, state, and national workers 3. establishing a wide base of support 4. cautious lobbying
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More Radical Tactics
Because not all of the tactics that the NAWSA wanted to complete ended in victories this made some women result in coming up with their own new more radical tactics. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul created their own organization, the congressional union its successor the national womens party -
19th Amentment
congress passed the 19th amendment, meaning women had the right to vote. it was finally radified in august of 1920. This event was exactly 72 years after the seneca falls convention in 1848
