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The Rights of Women.

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1 The Rights of Women

2 The National Woman Suffrage Association
Founded after the Civil War by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Pushed for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.

3 Women Vote Late 1800’s. It began in four western states: Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho.

4 Growing Support Support began to grow in the early 1900s.
Carrie Chapman Catt and the suffragists, or people who worked for women’s right to vote created a strategy to win suffrage state by state. It was successful.

5 The 19th Amendment Alice Paul met with Woodrow Wilson and by 1920 the Amendment had been ratified by three fourths of the states.

6 New Opportunities for Women
Higher Education Women’s Clubs Women Reformers

7 The Crusade Against Alcohol


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