220px-national_women's_suffrage_association_tiny Women's Suffarage

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Seneca2_tiny 04/09/1848 Seneca Falls Convention This was the first womens convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14 and 15 Admendments. Some thought these Admendments should include women.
Women suffrage marchers with baby_tiny 11/09/1869 Wyoming They tried to convence state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. They achived a victory in the territory of Wyoming.
Susan48_tiny 11/09/1871 Susan B. Anthony Susan B Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote al least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia.
Resized_image2_fa34b2414f2c67abe87cec41c0975f9c_tiny 11/09/1875 Citizenship denied In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens but then denied that citizeneship automatically conferred the right to vote.
Vote_tiny 11/09/1890 Voting Rights to Women By the 1890's Utah, Colorado. and Idahp had also granted voting rights to women.
Votes_for_women_the_story_of_carrie_chapman_catt_tiny 11/09/1900 Carrie Chapman Catt Served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed presidency in 1915.
Tff-firefighters_tiny 11/09/1911 Triangle Shitrwaist Factory. Womens ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women died in a 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
Nawsa_certificatealtsq_tiny 11/09/1915 New NAWSA Tactics She contrated on five new tactics. 1). painstaking organiation 2). colse ties between local, state, and national workers. 3).establishing a wide base of support 4). cautious lobbying 5). gracious, lady like behavior.
Suffrage_1917_white_house_160022v_800_tiny 11/09/1917 More Radical Tactics By 1917 Paul had organized her followers to mount a round-the- clock picket line around the White House. Some of the picketers were arrested, jailed, and even force-fed when they attempted a hunger strike.
Elt200802281823424137695_tiny 11/09/1919 19th Admendment Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment wom final ratification in August 1920 --- 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
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