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Susan B. Anthony
Congress ratified the 14th and 15th amendment, which granted equal rights,including African Americans. This angered Susan to think a black person could vote but not her. -
Illegal Voting of Women
In 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anothony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote atleast 150 times in ten states and the district of columbia. -
Carry Nation and the WCTU
In 1874, many women started haveing mixed feelins about alchohol. Husbands woulg go out and waste all money on it, come home drunk and in most cases. Women came together and created the WCTU. They began protesting at local saloons and bars, Most famously though, Carry Nation would destroy saloons by hitiing them with a hatchet. -
NAWSA Formed
In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton founded the Natonal Women Suffrage Association, uniting with another group in 1890 to become the National American Woman Suffrage Associaton. -
New NAWSA Tactics and Carrie Catt
When Carry Catt returned to NAWSA after organizing New York's Woman's Suffrage Party, she concentrated on new tactics. 1) painstaking organization 2) close ties between local, state, and national workers 3) establishing a wide base support 4) cautious lobbying and 5.) gracious, ladylike behavior -
The 19th Amendment
After a long battle with men and the gov., in 1919 the government finally passed the 19th amendment. Allowing women the right to vote.