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A leading proponent of woman suffrage, the right to vote, said " I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women.
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In 1871 and 1872, 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
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Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. Womans Christian Temeperance Union WCTU became the largest womens group in the nations history.
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NWSA, National women Suffrage association, united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAWSA leaders included Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe
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Carrie Chapman served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed presidency in 1915. She concentrated on five tactics, painstaking organization; clos ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; catuious lobbying, gracious, ladylike behavior
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Granting women to vote, the amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after woman had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848
