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Seneca Falls Convention
The first meeting for women to discuss voting rights. Women discussed the issue if the 14th and 15th amendments should apply to them. -
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Women's Suffrage
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Wyoming
Suffragist leaders tried three different approaches to achieve their objective. They tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote, and they achieved this in the territory of Wyoming. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women decided to test the question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the district of columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens but also denied citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
A group united to become the National American Women Suffrage Associaion. Some leaders were Lucy Stone, and Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." They faced constant opposition. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
The women saw success come within reach as a result of three developments: the increased activism of local groups, the use of bold new stratogies to build enthusiasm for the movement, and the rebirth of the national movement under Carrie Chapmen Catt -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms. Their ranks grew largly after 146 young working women was killed in the 1911 fire at the Shirtwaist factory -
New NAWSA Tactics
Catt consentrated on 5 tactics: painstaking organization, close ties between local, state, and national workers, establishing a wide base of support, cautios lobbying, and gracious, ladylike behavior. -
More Radical Tactics
Paul had organized her followers to mount a round-the-clock picket line around the white house. Some were arrested, jailed, and even force-fed when they attempted a hunger strike. -
19th Amendment
Grants women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in august 1920-72 years after women had first convenced and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
