Women's suffrage Flashcards
National Women’s Party
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded, aggressive strategies (Heckling, picketing, parades, protests) to get a Constitutional Amendment
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, State-by-state amendments to their constitutions, very lady-like to preserve face of movement
Seneca Falls Convention (July 19-20, 1858)
First in series of conventions to discuss “Social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women.” lead by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Declaration of Sentiments
Document mirroring Declaration of Independence to demand for civil, social, political, and religious rights of women
19th Amendment (Susan B. Anthony Amendment)
Introduced in 1878 but ratified August 18, 1920. States the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of sex (gender). Susan B. Anthony never got to see it ratified.`