Womens Sufferage

Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were fighting for the same women's rights in the mid 1900’s but they were nothing a like.
Alice Paul was a radical Quaker who lead the more militant suffragists. She add an unseen energy to her movement. She had spent years earlier in England where she had worked with the more militant suffragist, Emily Pankherst. In 1913 she returned to the United States she established the Congressional Union within the NAWSA to lobby for a federal amendment. Paul became impatient with the slow pace and joined forces with western women voters to form the more militant National Women’s Party. This party had a more aggressive and dramatic tactics that the United States had not seen from a suffragist group.
Paul and about 200 other women prote



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While most of Chapman’s women who were under the NAWSA objected to the extreme tactics of Alice Paul, she helped make the NAWSA position more acceptable to Wilson. Carrie Chapman Catt used the presidents war tactics as an argument and leverage for passing the vote for women. “ The fight for democracy, she argued, must begin at home, and she urged the passage of the women suffrage amendment as a ‘war measure’.” She argued that if the amendment was passed the women would work in he factories while the men were away. That argument won Wilson’s support and he pushed congress to pass the amendment. The senate approved it in 1919. In 1920 the legislatures had been convinced to pass the amendment also. In August 1920, Tennessee gave the final vote needed to ratify the 19th Amendment t

Some topics in this essay:
Women S Suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt, Suffragette, Suffrage, Women S Rights, Susan B Anthony, Universal Suffrage, Seneca Falls Convention, Emmeline Pankhurst, National American Woman Suffrage Association,

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