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Seneca Falls Convention
After the Sneca Falls Convention of 1848, women split over the fourteenth amendments, which granteed equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women. Susan B. Anthony, said "[I] wuld sooner cut off my right hand than ask the balot for the black man and not for women." In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association, which united with the NAWSA in 1890. -
Illegal Voting
In the Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage, women tried to convince state legislaturesto grant women the right to vote, and as a second part, they tested the Fourteenth Amendment, which declared that staes denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation. In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested this by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the district of Columbia. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were citizens. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
In the 1890's, Carry Nation worked for Prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the cutomers, and using her hatchet to destroy liquor bottles. The WCTU, (Women's Christian Temperance Union) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing,, praying, and urging saloonkeeepers to stop selling alcohol. It provided women with expanded public roles, which they used to justify giving women coting rights. -
NAWSA formed.
In 1890, the National Women Suffrage Association united with another group to become the (NAWSA) National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Carrie Chapman Catt was the president of NAWSA and called an emergency suffrage convention in September 1916 and invited President Woodrow Wilson, who cautiously supported suffrage. He told the convention, "There has been a force behind you that will... be triumphant and for which you can afford... to wait." They did have to wait but within four years, the passage of the suffrage amendment became the capstone of the progressive movement. Catt Concentrated on five tactics through it all. -
19th Amendment
In 1919, Congress passed the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920- 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.