Women’s+Suffrage


 * 1.**
 * **__1870s__- The women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) gained strength during the Progressive Era.**
 * **__1890s-__ The national suffrage effort was reenergized by Carrie Chapman Catt.**
 * **__1896__- Ida B. Wells helped form the National Association of Color Women (NACW).**
 * **__End of the 1890s-__ Women in western states had won the right to vote.**
 * **__1899-__ Florence Kelley helped found the National Consumer's League.**
 * **__1900-__ Carrie Catt became the president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)**
 * **__1916__- Margaret Sanger opened the country's first birth-control clinic.**
 * **__1917-__ Alice Paul formed the National Women's Party (NWP)**
 * **__1917__- Catt and Kelley led the NAWSA to support WWIs war effort.**
 * **__June 1919__- Congress approved the Nineteenth Amendment, which stated that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abriged on account of sex.**


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 * 3.  **Achieving equal rights has been a tough obstacle for many women. Women became more active for their own suffrage when the male suffrage extended to many countries. Women did not achieve suffrage on a national level until 1893. However, American, British and Canadian did not gain the same rights and privileges until War World I ended. In 1869 a problem developed with the feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment, which allowed black men to vote. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others refused to support this amendment because it refused women the right to vote still. Women believed that since a black man now had the right to vote they should have that right as well. Two organizations emerged as a result. Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to work for suffrage on the federal level and to press for more important institutional changes, such as the allowing of property rights to married women. Stone created the American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused to secure the ballot through state legislation. In 1890 the two groups came together under the name National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In that same year, Wyoming entered the Union, becoming the first state with general women's suffrage.