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A leading prponent of women siffrage, the right to vote, said would sonner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women.
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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 for restictions on child labor. Many men simply feared the changing role of women in society.
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WCTU became the largest wome's group in the nation's hisrory. WCTU member slogan and began opening kindergartens for immigrants, visiting inmates in prions and asyums, and working for suffrage.
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In the 1890 to became the National American women suffrage Association, or NAWSA. Other prominent leaders inculded lucky stone and Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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NAWSA was carries champman catt, servedfrom 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidenency in 1915. when catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's women suffrage party.
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Congress passed the ninetheenth Amendment franting women the right to vite. the amendment won final ratification in August 1920 - 72years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the seneca falls convention in 1848
