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Seneca Falls Convention
It was the first meeting by women to discuss suffrage. They split over the 14th and 15th ammendment. -
Wyoming
Women pursued the state legislatres and Wyoming was the first state to let women vote. -
Illegal voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
The supreme court ruled that women were indeed citizens, but then deniied that citisenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
women high school graduates outnumbered men. Moreover, new business schools were preparing book keepers and stenographers, as well as training femail typists to operate the machines. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was the president of NAWSA -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led to many female industrial workers to push for reforms. Their ranks grrew after 146 workers, mostly young women, died in the fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory -
New NAWSA Tactics
When Catt came back to NAWSA she concentrated on five tectics: 1) painstaking organization; 2) close ties between local, state, and national workers; 3) establishing a wide base of support; 4) catious lobbying; 5) gracious, ladylike behavior. -
More Radical Tactics
Alice Paul had organized Lucy Burns followers to mount a round the clock picket line around the White House. Some of the picketers were arrested, jailed, and even force-fed when they attempted a hunger strike. -
19th Amendment
Congress granted women the right to vote.
