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First women convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14th and 15th Amendments. Some thought these Amendments should include women.
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Suffragist leaders tried three approaches to achieve their objectiive. First, they tried to grant women the right to vote. They achieved a victory in the territory of Wyoming in 1869.
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Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question (Weren't women citizens too?) by attempting to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the district of Columbia.
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The Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote.
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The National Women Suffrage Association united with another group tobecome the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Servered from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915.
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Ranks grew after 146 workers. mostly young women died in a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
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When Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Women Suffrage Party, she focused o five tactics.
1. Painstaking organization
2. close ties between local, state, and national workers
3. Establising a wide base of support
4. Cautions lobbying
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Lucy Burns and Alice Paul formed their own radical organization, The Congressional Union, and its successor the Nationa Woman's Party. Pressured the federal government to pass a suffrage amendment. Paul and her followers mounted a round-the-clock-pickeet line around the white house
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congress passed the 19th amendment, granting the women the right to vote
