The AWSA was less militant than the National Woman Suffrage Association and unlike the NWSA, it did not campaign on other issues such as employer discrimination and easier divorce for women.
In 1870, the AWSA founded the Women's Journal, a magazine edited by Lucy Stone.
The suffrage movement was led by suffragists, defined as anyone, man or woman, who supports the extension of suffrage to women, and by suffragettes, the feminine form of the title given only to women who campaigned for the right of suffrage.
American women preferred this more inclusive title, but people in the United States who were hostile to suffrage for the Americanwoman used the UK word.
Political movement towards women's suffrage began during the war and in 1918, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act granting the vote to: women over the age of 30 who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5, and graduates of British universities.
The woman who wishes to be a teacher or a nurse takes her training in public institutions, as she formerly went to the factory to spin, not because she wishes primarily to leave home but because her work has been transferred.
The grievance which every thinking, self-respecting Americanwoman feels is the discrimination which invites to our land the men of all the nations of the earth, naturalizes them after a five years' residence, automatically enfranchises them under all State constitutions, and then commands American women to seek the ballot at their hands.
During the suffrage campaign in England this weapon was used for the double purpose of forcing the release of imprisoned militant suffragettes and of compelling the British government to act.
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