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Women's Sufferage

By james9193

  • Seneca Falls

    Seneca Falls
    women split over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women.

  • Wyoming

    Wyoming
    Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA.

  • Illegal Voting

    Woman suffrage faceed constant opposition. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on child labor.

  • Supreme Court Decision

    The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens-but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote.

  • NAWSA formed

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA was formed in 1890. Other prominent leaders inclcuded Lucy Stone, and Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

  • Carrie Chapman Catt

    They finally saw success come within reach as a result of three developments: the increased activism of local groups, the use of bold new strategies to build enthusism for the movement, and the rebirth of the national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Dangerour conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms. Their ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women died in a 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.

  • New NASWA Tactics

    When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Sufferage Party, she concentrated on 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.

  • More Radical Tactics

    Lucy Burns and Alice Paul formed their own more radical organization, the Congressional Union, and its successor, the National Woman's Party.

  • 19th Amendment

    Congresse passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.