Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society

The Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society was an American anti-suffrage group in the late nineteenth century.

The Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society was formed in 1869 and led by Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren.

[3] Other members included Catherine Beecher, Almira Lincoln Phelps, and Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.

[4] The reprinted petition was copied by anti-suffragists who used it to collect around five thousand signatures which were given to Congress in February 1871.

[4] Members of the Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society believed that giving women the vote would hurt the family structure.