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seneca falls convention
In 1848, more than 300 womenconvened in Seneca Falls, New York. Before the conventionstarted, Stanton and Mott composed an agenda and a detailedstatement of grievances.The participants at the Seneca Falls convention approved all parts of the declaration, includinga resolution calling for women to have the right tovote. -
illegal voting
women were not allowed to vote so they did it behind the mens and governments back and that created the NAWSA -
carry nation and the WCUTU
Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was undermining American morals. Founded in Cleveland in 1874, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. -
NAWSA formed
African-American women founded the National Association ofColored Women, or NACW, by merging two earlier organizations. Josephine Ruffin identified the mission of the African-American women’s club movement as “the moral education of the race with which we are identified.” The NACW managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens. -
carrie chapman catt and new NAWSA formed
Susan B.Anthony’s successor as president of NAWSA was CarrieChapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumedthe presidency in 1915. When Catt returned to NAWSAafter organizing New York’s Women Suffrage Party, she concentratedon five tactics
(1) painstaking organization;(2) 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
the womens right to vote