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The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions issued by the Convention, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, detailed the "injuries and usurpations" that men had inflicted upon women and demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote.
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First state to allow women to vote.
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Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question, Weren't women citizens too?, by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia.
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Rules that women were citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote.
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This organization worked tirelessly to gain women the right to vote on a constitutional amendment level and state level.
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She was a women's rights activist who became NASWA president.
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It brought the middle and upper classes into the public sphere for women's suffrage creating womens clubs that grew into reform groups that adressed issues. This helped spread the word.
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painstaking organizations; close ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; and caustious lobbying
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suffrage amendments
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granted women the right to vote