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A leading proponent of women suffrage. • After the Seneca Falls Convention women split over the 14th & 15th amendments, which granted equal rights including the right to vote to African American men, but excluded women. • In 1869 Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Women Suffrage Association.
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Susan B Anthony and other women attempted to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the District of Columbia.
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The WCTU reform activities, like those of the settlement house movement, provided women with expanded public roles, which they used to justify giving women voting rights.
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National American Woman Suffrage Act- NWSA untied with a group to form NAWSA.National American Woman Suffrage Act- NWSA untied with a group to form NAWSA.
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• Catt became president of NAWSA• 5 tactics:o Painstaking organizationo Close ties between local, state, and national workerso Establishing a wide base of supporto Cautious lobbyingo Gracious, ladylike behavior
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Congressed passed amendment allowing women the right to vote.