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Suan B. Anthony
a leader of the womens suffrage " I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women." Founded the national women suffrage association with Elisabeth Cady in 1869. -
Illegal Voting
Women brought forth to the court that the 14th amendment stated that states not allowing men to vote would lose congressional representation. They questioned if they was citizens to. The supreme court ruled in 1875 that they were but that citizenship did not confer the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
The wctu provided women with expanded public roles,which they could use to justify giving women voting rights. Some belived that the poor should work on changing their behaviors to better themselves and ban alochol. -
Nawsa formed
National American womens Suffrage associtation. Leaders included Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and the author of the battle hymn of the republic. Founded by Susan Anthony and Elisabeth Cady Stanton. Women faced opposition. The liquor industry thought women would vote for the prohibition of liquor. Many men feared the simple changes of women in society. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New Nawsa Tactics
New members who were college educated joined and two organizations used door to door campaigns to spread the word. Painstaking, close ties between local and national and state workers, establish a wide base of support, and cautious lobbying was the new tactics. -
19th Amendment
Granted women the right to vote.
won ratification in august 1920- 72 yrs after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the senea falls convention in 1848.