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Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca falls was one of the first sufferage movents, Gathering around 300 men and women that discussed social, economic, political, and religious life. -
Wyoming
Wyoming was the first to grant women the right to vote. Many said there motives were unprofessinal, having about 6000 men and 1000 women, men needed women. Also politicians believed women would be more likely to settle in the rugged and isolated country if they were granted the right to vote. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871 and 1872 Susan B. Anthony and other voted 150 times in different states, The supreme court ruled them as citizens then later denied the citizenship with the right to vote -
Supreme Court Decision
Court declared women as citizens but that did not give them the right to vote -
NAWSA Formed
national group formed that push for womens suffrage -
Carrie Chapman Catt
was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. This event led to better working condition and the forming of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. -
New NAWSA Tactics
Catt was concentrated onn five tactics painstaking organization, close ties between close, national, and state workers. wide base of support, causious lobbing, and ladylike behavior -
More Radical Tactics
Lucy burns and Alice Paul formed thier own more radical groups, The congressional Union and National Womens Party. Organized piciting around the white house -
19th Admendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
