Women’s Suffrage Background Seneca Falls Convention: First national women's rights convention in 1848 The National Woman Suffrage Association: fought.

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Women’s Suffrage

Background Seneca Falls Convention: First national women's rights convention in 1848 The National Woman Suffrage Association: fought for a constitutional amendment for suffrage The American Woman Suffrage Association: worked to win voting rights on the state level. 1890, Wyoming becomes first state to grant women suffrage

Suffragettes Major women’s rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, never lived to see women vote Carrie Chapman Catt led suffrage movement into the 20th century and helped push states to grant suffrage Alice Paul organized a march on Washington D.C. of 5,000 women in 1913

19th Amendment 1918, Pres. Woodrow Wilson supported the amendment, the house passed it, but the senate did not At the mid-term elections many anti-suffrage senators lost their seats August 1920, Tennessee votes to ratify the 19th amendment making it the 36th state to do so 19th amendment becomes part of constitution in 1920