Women's Suffrage Movement

By Savannah02

  • Susan B. Anthony

    LEd the proponet of woman suffrage, the right to vote, said "{I} would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women" Tried to vote 150 times in 10 states.

  • Illegal Voting

    in 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other woman votes at least 150 times in 10 and the District of Columbia.

  • NAWSWA Formed

    African American women founded this organization by merging two earlier organizations. Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Concentrated on
    1) painstaking organizations
    2) close ties between local, state, abd national workers
    3) establishing a wide base of support
    4) cautious lobbying
    5) gracious, kadylike behavior

  • 19th Amendment

    Gave women rights to wote

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Members advsnce their causes by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloomkeepers to stop seeling alcohol. As the momrntum grew Frances Willard from a small midwest religious group. Largest women's group in the nations history.