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she was a leading proponent of woman suffrage. they wanted equal rights.
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Susan B Anthony and other women tested the voting by attempting to vote 150 times in ten states and the district of Columbia. 1875 the court ruled that women are indeed citizens.
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she worked for prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor.
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National American Woman Suffrag Association. leaders were Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. People were against this because they thought the wemon would vote against child labor and vot prohibition.
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increased activism of local groups, the use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm for the movement, and the rebirth of the national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt. Carrie got precidency of the NAWSA in 1915. when she returned she focused on 5 tactice. 1) painstaking organization; 2) close ties between local, state, and national workers; 3) establishing a wide base support; 4) cautious lobbying; and 5) gracious , ladylike behavior.
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in 1919, congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. the amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convended and demanded the vote at the seeca falls convention in 1848.
