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The Women’s Suffrage Movement

The Women’s Suffrage Movement. National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA). -Founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1869) -Criticized Republicans for Abandoning Women in 15 th Amendment -Considered more radical & confrontational

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The Women’s Suffrage Movement

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  1. The Women’s Suffrage Movement

  2. National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) -Founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1869) -Criticized Republicans for Abandoning Women in 15th Amendment -Considered more radical & confrontational -Fought for not only suffrage, but also other issues such as divorce, temperance, revision of property & inheritance laws, etc. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

  3. American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) -Broke with National Women Suffrage Association in 1869 -Considered less radical & confrontational -Founded by Lucy Stone -Maintained closer ties to Republican Party -Focused mainly on suffrage rather than other issues Lucy Stone

  4. Suffrage Organizations -1890, National American Woman Suffrage Association -Stanton as President, Anthony as VP, Stone as Chair of Executive Committee 1913, Alice Paul forms the Congressional Union (CU) -Breaks away from NAWSA, shifts toward lobbying for national amendment rather than state by state 1919, League of Women Voters -Women less united as a voting block, tended to vote along racial & class lines 1920, 19th Amendment Ratified

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