Women's suffrage

Women's Suffrage

By Smooney

  • Seneca Falls

    Seneca Falls
    The Seneca Falls was the first Women's convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14th and 15th Amendments, some thought these amendments should include women.

  • The Start of NWSA

    The Start of NWSA
    Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which later lead to the NAWSA, National American Women Suffrage Association. These groups wanted to convince the state legislatures to let women have the right to vote. They eventually they talked Wyoming into letting women vote, however, after 1869 other states denied the request.

  • Illegal Voting;?!

    Illegal Voting;?!
    The NWSA often asked the same question: "Aren't women citizens too?" by asking this question Susan B. Anthony & other women tried voting about 150 times in 10 different states (including Washington, D.C.) in hopes of the government letting the Women vote.

  • Supreme Court Decision.

    Supreme Court Decision.
    The court ruled that women were citizens, but denied the right to vote.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    The National American Women Suffrage Association, it's basically a bigger organization of the NWSA.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt

    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 Factory

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
    146 workers (mostly young women) died in a factory fire in New York City. This made ranks grow for the dangerous working conditions.

  • (NEW) NASWSA tactics!

    (NEW) NASWSA tactics!
    After the returning of Carrie C. Catt, she focused on five things:
    1. painstaking organization
    2. close ties between local, state, and national workers
    3. establishing a wide base of support
    4. cautious lobbying
    5. gracious, "ladylike" behavior.

  • (More] Radical Tactics;!?

    (More] Radical Tactics;!?
    Because not all of the tactics that the NASWA 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.. it's succeessor, the National Woman's Party.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    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.