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Womens suffrage movement
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Seneca falls convemtion
It was a convention for a protest The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions issued by the Convention, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, detailed the "injuries and usurpations" that men had inflicted upon women and demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote. -
iIllegal voting
in 1871 and 1872, susan b. anthony and other women attempted to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the district of columbia. the supreme court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens-but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Temperance was a popular issue for late nineteenth-century reform women, So they formed a group womans christian temperence union. Under the leadership of Frances Willard, the WCTU became the most powerful women’s organization in the late nineteenth-century. Carry Nation, 1904, Library of Congress,
LC-USZ62-60404 The WCTU was successful in achieving many important temperance measures -
NAWSA
They suffered constang opposition.. The liquar industry feared they would vote agaisnt them. They had a 3 part strategy.
They tried to convence state legislatuers to grant women the right to vote. 2nd women pursued court cases to test the 14 admenment. 3rd women pushed for a national constitutional admetment for national for women to vote. -
Carrie Chapman catt and new NAWSA tactics.
5 tatics by Carrie chapman catt, they were 1 painstaking organization 2. close ties between local state and national workers. 3.establishing a wide base of support. 4. Cautious lobbying and 5. gracious, ladylike behavior. -
19th admenment.
After all these movemnets byy women they 19th admentment was finally added allowing women the right to vote.