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The Congressional Union created the National Woman's Party at a meeting in Chicago in 1916. [2] The party included members of the Congressional Union, and Alice Paul was in charge. [2] [4] A Campaign Committee was formed within the party with Anne Martin serving as chairman. [5]
Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright (1851–1929) – founding member of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party; Anna C. Wait (1837–1916) – Kansas Equal Suffrage Association; Sarah E. Wall (1825–1907) – organizer of an anti-tax protest that defended a woman's right not to pay taxation without representation
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage The National Woman's Party ( NWP ) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage . After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights ...
The Suffrage Special was an event created by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1916. The Suffrage Special toured the "free states" which had already allowed women's suffrage in the United States. The delegates were raising awareness of the national women's suffrage amendment.
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (2016) on 1789–91. Brown; Stuart Gerry. The First Republicans: Political Philosophy and Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson and Madison Syracuse University Press. Archived November 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (2016) Bowling, Kenneth R. Politics in the first Congress, 1789–1791 (Taylor & Francis, 1990) Christman, Margaret C.S. The first federal congress, 1789–1791 (Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1989.) Currie, David P.
The Congress of the Confederation was the sole federal governmental body created by the Articles of Confederation, but Congress established other bodies to undertake executive and judicial functions. In 1780, Congress created the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture , which acted as the lone federal court during the Confederation period.