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