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the first meeting for women to discuss voting rights.women split over the issue of the 14&15 amedment
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they achevieved a victory in the territory of wyming and also granted voting rights to women.
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women split over the 14&15 amendments,which granted equal rights including the right to vote african american men,but excluded women.Susan B. Anthony ,a leading proponent of women suffrage,the right to vote.
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the supreme court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens-but then dienied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote
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Anthony and elizabeth had founded the national women suffrage association which united with another group in 1890 to become the national american women suffrage asscciation,or NAWSA.
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Susan b anthony successor as president of nawsa was carrie chapman catt,who served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915.when catt returned to nawsa after organizing new york's women suffrage party,she concentrated on five tactics.
1.painstaking organization
2.close between local state
3estblishing a wide base support
4.cautios lobby-ing
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before the turn century,the cammpaign for suffrage achieved only modest success.
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IT WAS A WAY FOR THEM TO GATHER AROUND AND DISCUSS WHAT WAS RIGHT AND WHAT THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS RIGHT. THEY WANTED WOMEN TO HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS THE MEN TO MAKE THINGS EVEN
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Although suffragist saw victories,the greater number of failures led some suffragists to try more radicial tactics.Lucy Burns and Alice Paul formed their own more radical organization,the congressional union,and its successor,the national's women's party.
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granting women to vote.the amendment won final ratification in august 1920-72 years after women had the first convended and demanded the vote at the Seneca falls convention in 1848.
