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First women's convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14th and 15th amendments. Some thought these amendments should include amendments.
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Women achieved a victory in the territory of Wyoming where they convinced the state legislature to grant voting rights to women.
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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 ten 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 American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) formed with the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA).
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Susan B. Anthony's succesor as president of the NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 1900-1904.
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146 workers, mostly young women, died in a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
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Catt concentrated on five tactics when she returned: (1) painstaking organization; (2) close ties between local, state, and national workers; (3) establishing a wide base of support; (4) cautious lobbying; and (5) gracious, lady-like behavior.
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Lucy Burns and Alice Paul started their own more radical organization, the Congressinal Union, and its succesor, the National Woman's Party. They mounted a round-the-clock picket line around the White House and attempted a hunger strike.
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Granted women the right to vote.
