The Women’s Suffrage Movement

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

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

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