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Seneca Fallsconvention
THe participation approved all the parts of the decleration, including a resolution calling for woemn to have the right to vote.After the convention, women split over the fouteenth and fifteenth amendments. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anothony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote atleast 150 times in ten states and the district of columbia. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
In the 1890's, Carry Nation worked for prohibition by walking into saloons,scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor. The WCTU was the Women's Christian Temperance Union. They feared that alcohol was undermining American morals. These reformerswanted immigration and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves by improving their personal behavior. -
Illegal NAWSA
In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton had founded the Natonal Women Suffrage Association, which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Associaton. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and new MAWSA tactics
When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Woman's Suffrage Party, she concentrated on new tactics. 1) painstaking organization 2) close ties between local, state, and national workers 3) establishing a wide base support 4) cautious lobbying and 5) gracious, ladylike behavior -
19th Amendment
Patriotic Women who headed committees, knitted socks for soldiers, and sold liberty bonds now claimed their overdue reward for supporting war effort. In 1919, congress passed the nineteenth amendment, granting women the right to vote.