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Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions,” Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Among the 13 resolutions set forth in Stanton’s “Declaration” was the goal of achieving the “sacred right of franchise.”
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They agitated against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women
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they unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to include women in the provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendments
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Stanton and Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association, its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women.
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Lucy Stone created American Woman Suffrage Association;rejected the NWSA’s agenda as being racially divisive and organized with the aim to continue a national reform effort at the state level
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The first state to grant women complete voting rights was Wyoming
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California Senator Aaron Sargent introduced in Congress a women’s suffrage amendment in 1878, the overall campaign stalled.
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The AWSA it had only a regional reach. The NWSA relied on its statewide network but also drew recruits from around the nation
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The determination of these women to expand their sphere of activities further outside the home helped legitimate the suffrage movement and provided new momentum for the NWSA and the AWSA.
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Support of women activists ,Women’s Trade Union League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the National Consumer’s League.
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NAWSA was founded in Colorado
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NAWSA was founded Utah,Idaho
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the NAWSA intensified its lobbying efforts and additional states extended the franchise to women: Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon.
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Three other western states—Colorado , Utah , and Idaho followed , prior to 1910, only these four states allowed women to vote.
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A young Quaker activist who had experience in the English suffrage movement, formed the rival Congressional Union (later named the National Woman’s Party)
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The state legislature granted women the right to vote in 1913; this marked the first such victory for women in a state east of the Mississippi River
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Granted women the right to vote, thanks in part to the efforts of another future Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin.
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helped resuscitate the push for a federal equal rights amendment, and relentlessly attacked the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson for obstructing the extension of the vote to women.
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Carrie Chapman Catt,whose “Winning Plan” strategy called for disciplined and relentless efforts to achieve state referenda on the vote, especially in non-Western states.
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President Wilson (a convert to the suffrage cause) urged Congress to pass a voting rights amendment, when Montana’s Jeannette Rankin was sworn into the 65th Congress on April 2, as the first woman to serve in the national legislature.
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when Arkansas and New York granted partial and full voting rights, respectively.
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House of Representatives initially passed a voting rights amendment, but the Senate did not follow suit before the end of the 65th Congress.
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Congress with the House again voting its approval by a wide margin on and the Senate concurring on June 14, 1919.
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Amendment, providing full voting rights for women nationally, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
