Womens suffrage

Women's Suffrage

By davismm472

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She was a leader of the Woman's Suffrage. In 1871 and 1872 Anthony and other women attempted to vote at least 150 times in 10 different states. In 1872 she voted illegally and was fined $100.

  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    By the women illegally voting, it caught the eye of the Supreme Court. When people think something is very wrong, sometimes the only way they think they can change things is by breaking the law. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women are indeed citizens, but then they denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote.

  • Carry Nation and the WCTU

    Carry Nation and the WCTU
    WCTU aka "The Womans Christian Temperance Union" was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. The members went into bars and urged the customers/owners to stop buying alcohol buy praying and drinking. Frances Willard trasnformed the Union from a small group to a national organazation. The members went by Willard's "Do Everything" slogan. This organazation provided women with public roles, which helped their fight on voting. Carry Nation went into bars with a hatchet destroying bottles of alcohol.

  • NAWSA Formed

    NAWSA Formed
    "National American Woman Suffrage Association"
    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton had found the NWSA (National Women Suffrage Association) in 1869. They later united with another group in 1890 to become the NAWSA.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    Sucess came within the result of three developments: the increased activism of local groups, the use of bold new strategies to build enthusiam for the movement, and the rebirth of the national movement under Carrie Chapman Catt. Catt was the president of the NAWSA from 1900-1904 then returned in 1915. SHe concentrated on 5 tactics. They constanly pressured the federal government to pass a suffrage act. They often protested and sometimes they ended up getting arrested.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Congress passed the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920. It had been 72 years after women had first demanded the right to vote at the Seneca Falls Convention.