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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.She was also involved in the temperance movement, aimed at limiting or completely stopping the production and sale of alcohol. She was inspired to fight for women's rights while campaigning against alcohol. Anthony was denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman. -
Illegal Voting
Its illegal for women to vote in this time period. But thanks to the women for creating the womens sufferage -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet.Nation was controversial during her life and she remains so in her death. She's been described as a religious fanatic, a crank, and exhibitionist, a misfortune, and much more. The descriptions include some suggestion of mental problems: insane, "psychotic from and early age," demented, dominated by a "well defined strain of madness," suffering from a "personal history of disease and convulsion. -
NAWSA formed
They pursued the right to vote in different ways, but by 1890 it became necessary to combine efforts to keep the cause alive. The newly formed organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association became the most mainstream and nationally visible pro-suffrage group. Its strategy was to push for suffrage at the state level, believing that state-by-state support would eventually force the federal government to pass the amendment. -
Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the final push for the vote before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. She also founded the International Woman Suffrage Association and served as its honorary president until 1923. -
19th amendment
prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.
