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Seneca Falls Convention
This was the first meeting for women to discuss voting rights. Women split over the issure over the 14th and 15th ammendments. -
Wyoming
It was part of a three-part strategy for suffrage. At this time Wyoming had granted voting rights, and by the 1890's Utah, Colorado, and Idaho also granted voting rights. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women, tested the question about how they were citizens, so they attempted to vote in 10 states and The District of Columbia, atleast 150 times. -
Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court ruled out that women were indeed citizens but then denied their citizenship conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
In 1869 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. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Susan B. Anthony’s successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
By 1910, women’s clubs, at which these women discussed art or literature, were nearly half a million strong. These clubs sometimes grew into reform groups that addressed issues such as temperance or child labor. -
New NAWSA Tactics
When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York’s Women Suffrage Party, she con- centrated on five tactics: (1) painstaking organization; (2) close ties between local, state, and national workers; (3) establishing a wide base of support; (4) cautious lobby- ing; 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. They pressured the federal government to pass a suffrage amendment, and by 1917 Paul had organized her followers to mount a round-the- clock picket line around the White House. -
19th Amendment
Congress passed the NineteenthAmendment, granting women the right to vote. Theamendment won final ratification in August 1920—72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
