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What lasting impact did the person’s reforms have on American society?

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What lasting impact did the person’s reforms have on American society?

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She finally succeeded in establishing the equal-rights movement and she was able to achieve the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment allowed women rights who are educated the right to vote. Women were then able to be treated equally as a man.

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What detail(s) of the person’s work made him or her an interesting historical figure?

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What detail(s) of the person’s work made him or her an interesting historical figure?

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Catt had not given up and spent most of her time in wanting Equal-rights for women. She spoke publicly against the government as a dissident. Her hard work, writing and speaking engagements established Carrie’s reputation as a leading suffragist.

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Catt and the organization also pressured the federal government to ease immigration laws to make it easier for Jews to find refuge in the United States. For her work, she was the first woman to receive the American Hebrew Medal.

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What success did the individual have in promoting reform?

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What success did the individual have in promoting reform?

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Under the dynamic leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, the NAWSA won the backing of the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as state support for the ratification of the amendment. On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment officially became part of the U.S. Constitution, due to the tireless work of this great woman.

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💕She contributed an article to The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). "Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle," she wrote. "Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchaseable voice in government." 💕

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She created the “Winning Plan,” a campaign to encourage each state to give women the right to vote and to urge Congress to pass an amendment to this effect. Membership in NAWSA grew to over two million by 1917. With Jane Addams, she founded the Woman’s Peace Party in 1915, but when the United States entered World War I in 1917, she threw herself into organizations supporting the war effort.

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She warned that the United States was "menaced with great danger...in the votes posessed by the males in the slums of the cities and the ignorant foreign vote." Her solution was to "cut off the vote of the slums and give [it] to woman." Like other white suffragists, Catt was frustrated by what she saw as hypocrisy: "ignorant" men allowed to vote while educated women could not.

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Carrie Lane graduated from the Charles City High School in 1877 and immediately enrolled in the Iowa State College in Ames.

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She was the daughter of Lucius and Maria Clinton Lane. Her parents both graduated from Potsdam Academy, Potsdam, New York. Her parents moved west in 1855 and started their family after settling in Wisconsin. When Carrie was seven years old, her family moved to Iowa where she spent the rest of her childhood.

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Catt died of a heart attack at age 86 in her home on March 8, 1947.
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She was buried, at her request, in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City, beside Mary Hay, who had been her partner for decades.

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In 1885, she married Leo Chapman, a newspaper editor, and moved with him to San Francisco. He died in August 1886 of typhoid fever.
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In 1890, she married fellow Iowa State alum, George Catt, a wealthy engineer.

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Carrie moved back to Charles City, Iowa in 1887 and became involved in the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.

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Carrie Chapman Catt was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Lucius and Maria Clinton Lane.

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Carrie Chapman Catt (right) with Anna Howard Shaw, 1917. Bain Collection, Library of Congress

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Carrie Chapman Catt (right) with Anna Howard Shaw, 1917. Bain Collection, Library of Congress

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 To what extent was the reformer obsessed with achieving an impractical goal through fanatical or impractical means?

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 To what extent was the reformer obsessed with achieving an impractical goal through fanatical or impractical means?

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She approached her progressiveness as fanatical because of her relentlessness, consistency and speeches that caused the 19th Amendment to be enacted. She was reasonable and effective with her words and actions. Thus, resulting in her successes and recognition.