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After voting illagelly int he presidential election of 1872, Anthony was fined $100 at her trial. "Not a penny shall go to this unjust claim," she defiantly declared. She never paid the fine.
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The liquor industry feared that women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote restrictions on child labor.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and uring saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.
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Josephine Ruffin identified the mission of the African-American women's club movment as 'The moral education of the race with which we are identified."
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When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she concetrated on five tactics: (1) painsking organization;(2) close ties between local,state, and national workers;(3)astablishing a wide base of support;(4)cautious lobbying; AND (5) gracious, ladylike behavior.
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Granting Women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
