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Susan B. Anthony
In 1848 women had come to a disliking of the 14th and 15th amendments that granted equal rights and voting rights to African American males, but not females. The National Womens Suffrage Association (NWSA) was founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which eventually united with another group to become National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). -
Illegal Voting
In 1871, Susan B. Anthony and other women traveled through 10 states, casting at least 150 voted in each of them. The supremee court ruled that women were citizens, but that citizenship did not mean that they had automatic voting rights. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
Woman's Christian Temperance union (WCTU) and the Carry Nation were both working towards prohibition. Group memebers would try to convince shopkeepers and bartenders stop the sales of alcohol by busting into saloons while singing, praying, and destroying bottles.These events helped in providing women with expanded public roles that would later on help them gain voting rights. -
NAWSA Formed
National Womens Suffrage Association (NWSA) united with another group to form the National American Womens Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Members included in the group were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Julia Ward Howe. -
Carry Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Susan B. Anthony's successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915. She concentrated on five tactics: 1) Organization; 2)ties between local, state, and national workers; 3) Establishing support; 4) Lobbying; 5)Ladylike behavior. -
19th Amendment
Congress passed the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote.The amendment was fully ratified in August 1920, 72 years after women had first demnded the right to vote in 1848.
