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Susan B. Anthony, a leading proponent of woman suffrage, the right to vote, said: "[I] would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for woman."
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In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the discrict of columbia.
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Back in 1874, reformers wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves by improving their personal behavior.
Prohibition, banning of alcohol beverages, was one program.They tought it was undermining american morals.
1874 the Womans Christian Temperance Unions (found in Cleveland) spearheaded the crusade for prohibition.
Carry Nation worked for prohibiton and walked into saloons, scolding the customers, and using her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor. -
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to National American Woman Suffrage Association or NAWSA.
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Carrie Chapman Catt 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 ties between local, state, and national workers (3) establishing a wide base of support (4) cautions lobbying & (5) gracious, ladylike behaviour. -
In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The Amendment won final ratification in August 1920-72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Fall convention in 1848.
