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This was the first womens convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14 and 15 Admendments. Some thought these Admendments should include women.
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They tried to convence state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. They achived a victory in the territory of Wyoming.
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Susan B Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote al least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia.
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In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens but then denied that citizeneship automatically conferred the right to vote.
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By the 1890's Utah, Colorado. and Idahp had also granted voting rights to women.
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Served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed presidency in 1915.
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Womens ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women died in a 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
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She contrated on five new tactics. 1). painstaking organiation 2). colse ties between local, state, and national workers. 3).establishing a wide base of support 4). cautious lobbying 5). gracious, lady like behavior.
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By 1917 Paul had organized her followers to mount a round-the- clock picket line around the White House. Some of the picketers were arrested, jailed, and even force-fed when they attempted a hunger strike.
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Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment wom final ratification in August 1920 --- 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.
