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Seneca falls convention.
The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their sex. Stanton, the young bride of an antislavery agent, and Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran of reform, talked then of calling a convention to address the condition of women. Eight years later, it came about as a spontaneous event. -
WYOMING
Western states led the nation in approving women's suffrage, but some of them had rather unsavory motives. Though some men recognized the important role women played in frontier settlement, others voted for women's suffrage only to bolster the strength of conservative voting blocks. In Wyoming, some men were also motivated by sheer loneliness--in 1869, the territory had over 6,000 adult males and only 1,000 females, and area men hoped women would be more likely to settle in the rugged and isolat -
Illegal voting
in 1871 and 1872 susan B anthony and other women tested weather women were citizens or not, by attempting to vote at least 150 times in 10 states and the district of columbia. in the end the supreme court ruled that they were citizens -
supreme court decision
The supream court finaly ruled that women were indeed citizens-but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
Women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the vote. stanton succeeded in having the amendment introduced in california, but it was killed later. for the next 41 years women lobbied to have it reintroduced, onyl to see it continually voted down. -
Carrie Chapmen Catt
Susan B anthonys successor as president of NAWSA was Carrie Chapman Catt, who served from 100 to 1904 and resumed the presidency in 1915 -
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE
dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many femail industrial workers to push reforms. their ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly younge women died in a 1911 fire in the triangle shirtwaist factory in new york city. -
NEW NAWSA Tactics
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more radical tactics
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19th amendment
