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Seneca Falls Convention
First time women split over the 14th and 15th amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote African American men, but excluded women. -
Wyoming
First state that allowed women the right to vote -
Illegal voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme court ruled that women were citizens- but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Women suffrage faced constatnt opposition. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohilbition, while the textile on child labor. Many men simply feared the changing role of women in society. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
served from 1900 to 1904 resumed the presidency in 1915. When she resumed she concentrated on 5 tactics. (1) painstaking organization (2) close ties between local, state, national workers (3) establishing a wide base of support (4)cautious lobbying and (5) gracious , ladylike behavior -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industial workers to push for reforms. Their ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women, died in a 1911 firein the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. This incident led for more reforms for women rights. -
New NAWSA tactics
To pass a sufrage amendment , and by 1917 Paul organized her followers to mount a round-the-clock picket line around the White House.
