Womens Suffrage Movement

By aleahnicole

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    After the Seneca Falls convention, women split over the fourteenth and fifteenth ammendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to Afriacan American men, but exclude women. Susan B. Anthony, a leading proponent of women suffrage. In 1869 Anthony and elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association, which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Women Suffrage Association.

  • Illegal Voting

    In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 time in ten states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court rulled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens-but then denied the citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. Women pushed for national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote. Stanton introduced in California, but it was killed later.

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Womans Christian Temperance Union spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Memebers advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing,praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. Boasting 245,000 members by 1911, WCTU became largest women's group in the nation's history. Carry Nation worked for prohibition by walking into saloons,scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottle of liquor

  • NAWSA Formed

    In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association, which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Other prominent leaders included Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. Women suffrage faced constant opposition.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Susan B. Anthony's successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, whoserved from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the prsidency in 1915. After organizing New Yorks Women Suffrage Party, she concentrated on five tactics: (1) painstaking Organization; (2) close ties between local, state, and national workers; (3) establishing a wide base support; (4) cautious lobying; and (5) gracious ladylike behavior.

  • 19th Amendment

    In 1919, congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.