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Womens Suffrage

By sglover3

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    She was a leading proponent of women suffrage, she stated "I would sooner cut off my right hand then ask for the ballot for the black man and not for women."

  • illegal voting

    A group of women led by susan b anthony attempted to vote 150 times dispite not having the right to vote.

  • WCTU

    WCTU
    The womens christian temperance union superheaded the crusade for prohibition. Members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    Its a national american women suffrage association. It was formed in order to move foward to womens suffrage.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt and New NAWSA Tactics
    Carrie Chapman Catt was the NAWSA's president. She saw victory on the horizon. She expressed her optimism in a letter to her friend Maud Wood Park. She called an emergency convention in September 1916. President Wilson supported suffrage.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    This amendment granted the right for women to vote. This amendment won final ratification in August 1920, this was 72 years after the first women had convened and demanded the vote at Seneca falls convention in 1848.