<P> At the time of the convention, the national women's movement was in the process of splitting . One wing, associated with Stanton and Anthony, had formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The other, associated with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, had formed the New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) and would soon form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Isabella Beecher Hooker invited both parties to the Hartford convention and tried to heal the breach between them, but was unsuccessful . The Beecher family generally opposed Anthony's and Stanton's NWSA (Isabella's brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was the first president of the more moderate AWSA). Isabella, however, was friendly with Anthony and Stanton and served as NWSA's vice president for Connecticut . </P> <P> Isabella Beecher Hooker was the leading force in the CWSA and led the suffrage movement in that state for the rest of the century . The New England Woman Suffrage Association organized affiliated state suffrage societies in most New England states except for Connecticut . The CWSA recorded a membership of 288 in 1871 . </P> <P> In the 1870s, sisters Julia and Abby Smith, sometimes known as the "Maids of Glastonbury," engaged in a "no taxation without representation" protest . They refused to pay their local taxes because women were not allowed to vote on tax issues . The town seized their property to pay the taxes . </P> <P> The movement won a few victories during this period . Married women won the right to control their own property in 1877 . Women won the right to vote for school officials in 1893 and on library issues in 1909 . The slow pace of progress was discouraging, however, and by 1906, the CWSA was down to 50 members . </P>

Western territories were among the first to adopt laws