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Susan B. Anthony
Women split over the Fourteenth and Fiifteenth Admendments, ehich granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women. Susan lead an proponent of women suffrage the right to vote. She said "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for for the black man and not for women. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women testedthat question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the Distract of Columbia. The Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Carry Nation and WCTU
WCTU stands for 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. 245,000 members by 1911, the WCTU became the largest women's group in the nations history. -
NAWSA Formed
NAWSA means National American Women Suffrage Association. Other prominent leaders include Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe. Women suffrage faced constant opposition. The liquor industry feared taht women would vote in support of prohibition, while the textile industry worried that women would vote for restrictions on Child Labor. Many men feared the changing role. -
Carrie Champman CAtt & New NAWSA Tactics.
Susan Anthony successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed as president in 1915. When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's women suffrage party, she concentrated on 5 tactics: Painstaking organization; Close ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; cautious lobbing; and gracious, ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, 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
