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Seneca Falls Convention
The first womans convetion to discuss voting rights. Woman were split over the 14th amendments. Some thought these admendments should include women -
Wyoming
Tried three different approaches, first was to convince state legislatures to grant women right to vote. 2nd was achieved a vitory in the territory of Wyoming. -
Illegal voting
Susan B. Anthony and othr women tested that question by attemting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the distric of coloumbia. -
Supreme court decision
Women were indeed citizens- but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred right to vote. -
NASWA formed
Formed a group to protest the right to vote, many men feared that because it would change womens society. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman begin the NAWSA and complished 5 tactics after she returned to the group. 1) painstaking orginzation; 2) close ties between local, state, and national workers. 3) establishing a wide base of support. -
triangle shirtwaist fire
146 women died in a triangle shirtwaist factory. many women middle and upper class entered the public sphere. -
NAWSA tactics
the tactics were followed by carrie catt Catious lady like behavoir, and painstaking organizaton, and close tie between local stante and federal goverments -
more radical tactics
pressured goverment to pass a suffrage amendment. but some of the piciters were arrested and went to jail. -
19th amendment
congress passed amendment for womans right to vote after the war. it took 72 years to get the right to vote of woman.