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Women split over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women.
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Susan B. Anthony & other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states & the Distric of Culumbia:
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Prohibition, the benning of alcoholic beverages, was one such program. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, to stop selling alcohol.
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National Americsn Woman Suffrage Association. Faced constant oppositio. The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on child labor.
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Carrie Chapman Catt was the president of NAWSA. She concentrated on five tactics:
1) painstaking organizaton
2) close ties between local, state & national workers
3) establishing a wide base of support
4) cautious lobbying
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The Congress granted women the right to vote.
