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A leading proponent of women's suffrage, said "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for thr black man and not for women."
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Women would go out and vote anyway, knowing they weren't supposed to, to draw attention to themselves and their movement.
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Prohibitionist groups were afraid that alcohol was undermining American morals. Founded in Cleavland in 1874, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition.
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In 1869 Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the National Women Suffeage Association, which united with another group in 1890 to become the National Woman Suffrage Association
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1) painstaking organization
2) close ties between local, state, and national workers
3) establishing a wide base of support
4) cautious lobbying
5) gracious, ladylike behavior -
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote
