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Seneca Falls Convention
Women split over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendements, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women. -
Wyoming
Convinced state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. -
Illegal Voting
in 1871 and 1872, susan b. anthony and other women attempted to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the district of columbia. the supreme court ruled in 1875 that women were indeed citizens-but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
Supreme Court Decision
ruled that women were indeed citizens. -
NAWSA Formed
in 1869 anthony and elizabeth cady stanton had founded the national women suffrage association which united with another group in 1890 to become the national american woman suffrage association. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
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
dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms. their ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women, died in a 1911 fire in the triangle shirtwaist factory in new york city, by 1910, wmoens clubs, at which these women discussed art or literature, were nearly half a million strong. these clubs sometimes grew into reform groups that addressed issues such as temperance or child labor. -
New NAWSA Tactics
The NAWSA continued the work of both associations by becoming the parent organization of hundreds of smaller local and state groups,[2] and by helping to pass woman suffrage legislation at the state and local level. The NAWSA was the largest and most important suffrage organization in the United States, and was the primary promoter of women's right to vote. Like AWSA and NWSA before it, the NAWSA pushed for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's voting rights, and was instrumental in wi -
More Radical Tactics
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19th Amendment
prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.