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Susan B. Anthony
A leading proponent of women suffrage, the right to vote, said "I would sooner cut off my own right hand then ask the ballot for the black man and not for women". In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Women Suffrage Association, or NAWSA. Woman suffrage faced constant opposition. Many men simply feared the changing role of women in society. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 many women tried to vote from many different states. This helped bring the US closer to acheiving women's suffrage by let everyone relize that women are citezens and should have the right too. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Prohibition, the banning of alcoholic beverages, was on such program. Prohibitionist groups feared that alcohol was undermining American morals. Found in Cleveland in 1874, the "Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)" spearheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol. As momentum grew, the Union was transformed by Frances Willard from a small midwestern religious group in 1879. -
NAWSA formed
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. It helped bring the US closer to acheiving women's suffrage because it pushed for the constitutional right for women the vote.The National American Woman Suffrage Association was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffra -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. This helped the US get closer to acheiving women's suffrage because It got women the right to vote. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. This gave women their right to vote and put people that they want in office to help them get what they need.
