Womens Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

Dec 2, 1848

Susan was a leading proponent of women suffrage. Women split the fourtenth and fifteenth amendment, which granted rights for african americans to vot but excluded women.

Illegal Voting

Dec 2, 1871

Susan and other women attempted to vote 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. Women pursued court caases to test the 14th amendment, whch declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation.

Carry Nation and the WCTU

Dec 2, 1874

Founded in Cleveland. Members advanced their cause by entering saloon, singing, praying. and etc. WCTU became the largest womens group in nation's history

NAWSA Formed

Dec 2, 1890

National American Women Suffrage (NAWSA). Leaders were Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe.The liquor industry worried that women that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on child labor.

Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

Dec 2, 1915

President of NAWSA who served 1900-1904 and resumed presidency in 1915. She concentrated on five tactics painstaking oranizatons,close ties between local, state and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; cautios lobbying, and gracious ladylike behavior.

19th Amendment

Dec 2, 1919

granting women the right to vote. This amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Senaca Falls convention in 1848.