The woman suffrage movement brought many courageous women out in the public eye. Such women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were amongst many of them. The two women also established “The National Woman Suffrage Association”. The association was basically put up to build support for woman suffrage. In 1872, Anthony made an attempt to vote. She knew she was doing an illegal act and was hoping to be arrested. Anthony wanted to be arrested so she could take her case to court and try to prove her point. Anthony was arrested and taken to court. She was found guilty and fined. Susan B. Anthony claimed,”to never pay a dime of it.” #

After the “Southern Strategy” had failed, the NAWSA went through a major period of rebuilding. They were rebuilding not only in membership but also in image. “The association began succesfull efforts to recruit large members of socially and politically influential women.” # This time around they were reaching out to all different types of women. They were also getting numbers of middle and upper class women. The association also reached out to the new generation of colleg-educated women. There were many young leaders getting involved, but a few of the young leaders who really stood up and took charge were, Maud Wood Park, Inez Haynes Irwin, Mary Hutcheson Page of Massachusetts and Hariott Stanton Blatch(daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton) of New York. Page and Blatch formed the College Equal Suffrage League. The two were trying to reinvigorate the suffrage movement in their state by introducing new tactics. # Blatch also organized the Equality League of self supporting women, it was later called the Women’s Political Union.

Besides the winning plan, catt and her lieutenants also worked hard to get President Wilson to support the suffrage movement. When the United States entered World War I, Catt got the suffragists to support the war. The women would go down to the hospitals and would nurse the injured men. President Wilson saw what effort and work the women put into taking care of others and how much they could help. The women helping during the war also enhanced the patriotic image of the women. In 1918, President Wilson started working on getting the women the federal amendment. The federal amendment eventually led to the nineteenth amendment, it got submitted to the states in June 1919.

The women were not finished yet. They still had thirty-six states to ratify the amendment, before it could become a law. It took awhile for the states to decide. In each state there were some people who supported the suffrage movement and some who did not. By the summer of 1920, the suffragists were happy to know that there was only one state left that needed t vote. The last state that needed to ratify was Tennessee. But on August 18, 1920 Tennessee ratified and the suffrage had gotten all fifty states to ratify.

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