NAWSA was by far the largest organization working for women's suffrage in the U. S. From her first endeavors in Iowa in the 1880s to her last in Tennessee in 1920, Catt supervised dozens of campaigns, mobilized numerous volunteers ( 1 million by the end ), and made hundreds of speeches.

Adding to the growing tensions between the Congressional Union and NAWSA, Burns made a radical proposal once again at the 1913 NAWSA convention in Washington, D. C. Because Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress at the time, Burns wanted to give them an ultimatum — support our bill for suffrage or we will make sure you don ’ t get reelected.

When a delegation of women from NAWSA tried to meet with him to address this incident and register their protest, Wilson claimed to be ill. A few days later, Wilson reneged his vow to support suffrage and said he would not impose his private views on Congress.

While Burns, Paul, and other women from both the Congressional Union and NAWSA met to address this issue, NAWSA ultimately remained in support of the Shafroth amendment, and the Congressional Union continued its campaign for federal suffrage.

As president of NAWSA, Shaw was pressured to support these tactics.

Rankin was hired as an organizer by the New York Women's Suffrage Party and the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ).

Paul split from the large National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ), which favored a more moderate approach and supported the Democratic Party and Woodrow Wilson, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, and formed the more militant National Woman's Party.

The NAWSA continued the work of both associations by becoming the parent organization of hundreds of smaller local and state groups, and by helping to pass woman suffrage legislation at the state and local level.

Matilda Joslyn Gage, Olympia Brown and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were each alienated by the merger ; together, their interests were too radical for the new NAWSA.

Operating under the tight control of Carrie Chapman Catt and her allies, NAWSA by 1916 had enough strength in the states for the final push toward a constitutional amendment.

During the involvement of the United States in World War I, many women's rights activists, led by the NAWSA, decided to table the measures that they had been promoting.

The merger of the two organizations, pushed through by Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell and Anthony, produced the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) in 1890.

This militant tactic was presented by Paul and Burns at the 1912 NAWSA convention in Philadelphia to Anna Howard Shaw and other NAWSA leaders.

NAWSA felt they could no longer tolerate the radical tactics employed and advocated by the Congressional Union, and they wanted to officially sever their ties.

At the time, the NAWSA was ineffective and riven by factional conflict, which many blamed on Dr. Shaw's leadership.

Later, Dennett became disillusioned with NAWSA after an unsuccessful attempt to reorganize to be more effective and what she saw as wasteful decisions overly influenced by wealthy donors.

< http :// www. nwhm. org / education-resources / biography / biographies / anna-howard-shaw />.</ ref > In 1915, she resigned as NAWSA president and was replaced by her ally Carrie Chapman Catt.

Like AWSA and NWSA before it, the NAWSA pushed for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's voting rights, and was instrumental in winning the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920.

After success in 1920, the NAWSA was reformed as the League of Women Voters, which continues the legacy.

From 1920 to 1921, the NAWSA reformed into the League of Women Voters, with Maud Wood Park as president.

She was elected president of NAWSA twice ; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920.

Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 as a successor to NAWSA.

After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Catt retired from NAWSA.

The suffrage organization NAWSA became the League of Women Voters and Alice Paul's National Woman's Party began lobbying for full equality and the Equal Rights Amendment which would pass Congress during the second wave of the women's movement in 1972 ( but it was not ratified and never took effect ).

The NAWSA was the largest and most important suffrage organization in the United States, and was the primary promoter of women's right to vote.

Upon returning to the United States, Paul and Burns joined the National American Women Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) as leaders of its Congressional Committee.

She quit NAWSA in 1914 to return to Montana to help secure passage of woman suffrage there, which was achieved in 1914.

Back at the NAWSA convention, Anthony was elected president, with Stanton and Stone becoming honorary presidents.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) was an American women's rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association ( NWSA ) and the American Woman Suffrage Association ( AWSA ).

Susan B. Anthony was the dominant figure in NAWSA from 1890 to 1900, at which time she stepped down in favor of Carrie Chapman Catt.

Catt was president of NAWSA from 1900 to 1904 and again from 1915 onward.

Anna Howard Shaw was president of NAWSA from 1904 to 1915.

At the NAWSA convention in 1900, Maud Wood Park discovered that, at the age of 29, she was the youngest delegate present.

With its radical tactics, the NWP gained headlines while NAWSA was negotiating with Congressmen who had the votes.

While Stanton and Gage maintained their radical positions, they found that the only women's issue really unifying the NAWSA was the move for suffrage.

Attracting more radical members than NAWSA, the WNLU was the perfect mouthpiece for her attacks on religion.

After her graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, Paul joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) and was appointed Chairwoman of their Congressional Committee in Washington, DC.

Paul's methods started to create tension between her and the leader of NAWSA, who felt that a constitutional amendment was not practical for the times.

The NAWSA membership wished to focus on one single issue: the drive to gain for women the right to vote.

While the women were forced to tone down their proposal, NAWSA leaders did authorize a suffrage parade during Woodrow Wilson ’ s inauguration.

Burns and Paul met with NAWSA officials and other women from the Congressional Union at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D. C. on December 17, 1915.

Under her leadership, NAWSA continued to " lobby for a national constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.