goals for the emerging womens movement. Included in the womens Declaration of Independence was the goal of the right to vote, but that waslooked upon by most of the women as a radical unachievable goal.The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869 caused a rift in the suffragemovement. Elizabeth Caty Stanton and Susan B Anthony form the National WomanSuffrage Association (NWSA). Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howeformed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NWSA did not supportthe 15th Amendment, it pushed for an alternative 15th Amendment granting womensright to vote. They were considered the more radical of the two groups.. The AWSA wasin support of the 15th amendment, while still working for womens enfranchisement, moreon a state level. The NWSA thought it was more important to attack the issue on anational scale while the AWSA thought that if you worked within the states and perhapsgot state by state suffrage, the goal could be attained.IN 1872 Susan B Anthony attempted to vote for the elections in New York. Sheand several other women were successful in their attempts. Anthony was arrested andfound guilty of knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully voting for a representative to theCongress of the United Sates.. The courts were afraid to jail her , fearing riots. She wasissued a fine which she refused to pay.In the West suffrage was doing well about this time, several of the westernterritories enfranchised women in hopes that they would emigrate westward. These areasincluded Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho. This was also a source of unrest for theEast. The fat that westerners could vote while the women who were campaigning so hardcould not was a blatant slap in the face from the government.The suffrage ties to the temperance movement gained them both a great manysupporter and some enemies. As the suffragettes were seen as unwomanly this linkingof crusades brought them back tot he home and ...
