Women's Suffrage Movement

By maegzwood

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Anthony was a leader in the women's suffrage movement. In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) .

  • Illegal Voting

    Susan B. Anthony and many other women tested the question "weren't women citizens, too?" by attempting to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the District of Columbia. In 1875, The Supreme Court ruled that women were in fact citizens, but that didn't automaticaly mean they could vote.

  • Carry Nation & the WCTU

    The WCTU supported prohibition. Carry Nation worked for prohibition by walking into saloons, scolding the customers, and used her hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor. The WCTU had 245K members by 1911, making it the largest women's group in history. By fighting fiercly for prohibiton and other reform activities, this group of women started to give women a voice in political, moral, and social issues.

  • NAWSA Formed

    After combining with the NWSA the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed. The liquor industry, the textile industry, and many men feared women gaining a role in society. Suffrage leaders had a 3-point strategy to achieve their objective. They achieved moderate success.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt & New NAWSA Tactics

    Carrie Chapman Catt was Anthony's successor as president of the NAWSA. Her 1st term was in between 1900-1904 & then she returned in 1915. When she returned, she concentrated on 5 new tactics which were: painstaking organization, close ties between local, state, and national workers, establishing a wide base of support, cautious lobbying, and gracious, ladylike behavior.

  • 19th Amendment

    Congress finally passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. It was finally ratified in 1920, 72 years after women ever voiced wanting to vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1948.