Building the Blocks
Before an official convention, a woman in Maryland, Margaret Brent owner of property in Maryland demanded for 2 votes one for her and the other for Cecil Calvert (whose was a lawyer). The governoer rejected her demanded and she boycotted the assembly. Women from New Jersey could vote because of the loop hole in the Constitution that stated "all the inhabintants of New Jersey who owned property". Women who owned property took this to their andvantage. Until the state legislates decided to take that privilege away from women and black men. The Woman Suffrage Movement continued with the Seneca Falls Convention in New York on July 19-20, 1848. Leaders of the anti-slavery movement began to question the fact that U.S.A claimed to be a democracy, but didn't allow women to vote. Individuals who organized the Senca Falls Convention were: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, and Mary Ann McClintock. This convection set up a "Decleration of Sentiments" that stated women should have same rights as men includig preaching, right to an education, to teach, and have a proffesion. Four years passed and Susan B. Anthony joined the Woman Rights Convenction in Syracuse on 1852. Susan B. Anthony stated that the essential rights women should have is the right to vote. When the Recontruction debate (whether ex-slaves should have the right to vote) was going on, suffragists fought for universal suffrage. Which did not exclude anyone. The Woman Suffrage Movement cooled off at the start of the Civil War. The Republican party thought granting ex-slaves the right to vote would be better than granting women suffrage. They proceeded to pass the 14th and 15th amendment The Woman Suffrage Movement then broke into 2 parts followed by the Civil War. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony did not support the 15th amendment because it did not include woman suffrage. They decided to find another way to get an amendment that included woman suffrage. Both Stanton and Anthony established the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA). The NWSA believed an amendment should be created ultimately fixing Women's rights. Another organization that was created was the American Woman's Suffrage Association (AWSA) which was led by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell. AWSA supported the 15th amendment, but they believed the best way to get women suffrage was to pressure that state to change the constitution. But the Supreme Court didn't show any hope of gareenting women the right to vote. In 1890, The NWSA and AWSA united and formed the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Anthony retired her presidency with the NWSA and let Carrie Chapman Catt take over. Both decided to unite forces and increase efforts on state and national efforts.
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