Suffrage at Last

• Leaders of women’s suffrage - Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony
• In 1866, Anthony and Stanton founded American Equal Rights
Association
• In 1890 – Wyoming first state to grant full women’s suffrage
• Civil disobedience - nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change it
• Two paths toward suffrage:
• 1. Constitutional amendment
• 2. Individual states hold power

• Constitutional amendment approach stalled many times before
• 1890 – Anthony, Stanton, and Stone founded the National
American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• From 1892 – 1900 Anthony served as president of organization

• Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul emerges
• Formed the Congressional Union (CU) – organization founded by
Paul
• A split in the movement had Paul performing radical militant movements while Catt and the NAWSA discouraged those actions
• Catt worked on state suffrage campaigns
• In 1917 New York allowed women’s suffrage
• WWI had more women in factories than ever before
• 18 th Amendment – prohibited liquor – no longer fought suffrage
• 1919 - Congress proposed and passed the suffrage amendment 19 th
Amendment – last major reform of Progressivism