NAWSA founded (1 ene 1890 año – 31 dic 1890 año)

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The strategies of the National and the AWSA started to “converge” after 1872, and in October, 1887, Lucy Stone of the AWSA, proposed at the convention that merging be discussed with the National. “Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony and Rachel Foster met in December” of that year agreed to start to merge the two organizations. In 1890, they merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). They took a different approach to the argument for suffrage: instead of arguing that they deserved suffrage because they were the same and equal to men, they argued that they deserved the vote because they were different from men due to their “domesticity”. They argued that they could use this “domesticity” through their votes as “a political virtue… to create a purer, more moral, ‘maternal commonwealth.’” This argument appealed to many other groups much better than their previous argument. Temperance societies (wanting to ban and restrict alcohol) were convinced that women would vote in favor of their cause, while racist, middle-class white men thought that they could exchange women’s votes for black votes, to “‘ensure immediate and durable white supremacy’”. In 1906, Jane Addams also “linked women’s suffrage to technological modernity and stressed that centralized urban infrastructure, such as water systems that connected the home to an outside network, had transformed municipal administration into ‘enlarged housekeeping.’ City government had expanded from cigar bars and saloons into the domestic sphere, where women, she argued, had more competence to govern than men did.”

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