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Seneca Falls Convention
First suffrage conevtion. Women split over the issues of voting around the 14th and 15th Amendments. -
Voting rights in Wyoming
Convinced state legislaters to allow women voting rights. -
Women Citizens
Susan B. Anthony and other women tried voting at least 150 times in ten states and district of colombus. -
First Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court agreed that women were citizens but didn't give them citizenship so they couldn't vote. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton founded NWSA which later formed with another group for NAWSA -
Susan B. Anthony's Succesor
Susan B. Anthony's succesor was Carrie Chapman Catt -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
With low wages dangerous working conditions and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms. With the fire reformation had began. -
Catt's Presidency
Carrie Chapman Catt resumed her presidency when she returned from New York's women suffrage party. She concentrated on 5 tatics.
1. Painstaking organizations
2. Close ties between local, state, and national workers
3. Establishing a wide base of support
4. Cautious lobbying
5. Gracious, ladylike behavoior -
Lucy Burns and Alice Paul
These two women created a Congressional Union and the succesor was the NAWSA and Paul succesfully created a round-the-clock picket line around the White House -
Women can vote
Congress created the 19th Amendment in allowing women to vote. It was ratified a year later 72 years after women first convened and demanded voting rights