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Secena Falls Convention
First women convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14th & 15th admendent. Some thought these adments should include women. -
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Womens Suffrage
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Wyoming
Suffragists tried to convience state legistures to grant women the right to vote in these states, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The first state it was approved was in Wyoming in 1869. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question, which was weren't women citizens too?, 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 then denied that citizenship automatically gave them the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, both founded in 1869, were the main suffrage organizations in the U.S. during the 19th century. They pursued the right to vote in different ways, but by 1890 it became necessary to combine efforts to keep the cause alive. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
From 1890 to 1900 an organizer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she became its president in 1900. She led the campaign to win suffrage through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), she organized the League of Women Voters for the political education of women. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FIre
It drew attention to the dangerous condition and after the fire, new working conditions and more exits were available. -
New NAWSA Tactics
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. -
More Radical Tactics
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 -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.
