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Susan B. Anothony
Said she'd rather cut off her right hand than ask the ballots for a black man and not a women. She was a leading proponet of woman suffrage, an abolionist, an author and a speaker. She was the president of the NAWSA -
Illegal Voting
Suffragist leaders tried to convince legislatures to allow women the right to vote. In 1869, Wyoming allowed women to vote. In the 1890's Utah, Colorado and Idah were allowing women to vote. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
In the 1800s, Carry Nation and the Women's Christian Temperance Union worked for prohibition. WCTU urged saloonkeepers ot stop selling alcohol. They were a small midwestern group but turned into a national organizationl by 1911 there were 245,000 members, becoming the largest women's group in the nation's history. Members of the group followed the motto "do everything" . The things they did provided women expanded public roles. -
NAWSA formed
Formed in May 1890 was the main womens suffrage group in the late 1800s. Its strategy was to push the conflict to state level hoping that eventually it would become an Amendment. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and the new NAWSA tattics
Carrie Catt was Susan B. Anthony's succesor as president of the NAWSA. She had went to New York and started New York's Women's Suffrage Party then came back to the NAWSA. She then focused on painstaking organization; close ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; cautious lobbying; and gracious, ladylike behavior. -
Ninetenth Amendment
All the womens hard work paid off, eventually in 1919 the 19th Amendment was passed which allowed woman to vote.
