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Susan B. Anthony
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." -
Illegal Voting
Women would go out and vote anyway, knowing they weren't supposed to, to draw attention to themselves and their movement. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
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. -
NAWSA Formed
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 -
Carrie Champman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
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 -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote
