19th Amendment

By rsummerfield

  • First Women's Right Convention

    First Women's Right Convention
    The first Women's Right Convention was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY. They came together to fight for voting rights.

  • First National Women's Rights Convention

    First National Women's Rights Convention
    The first Nation Women's Rights Convention took place in Worcester, Massachusetts. It attracted more than 1,000 participants. Fredrick Douglas, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth were all there.

  • "Ain't I A Women?" speech

    "Ain't I A Women?" speech
    During a Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio a former slave gave a speech called "Ain't I A Women?" This was delivered by Sojourner Truth.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    The Civil War began in the United States. Women's Rights advocacy stopped until the war ends in 1865.

  • Formulation of the American Equal Rights Association

    Formulation of the American Equal Rights Association
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony forms the American Equal Rights Association. This is an organization for white and black women, and men dedicated to end suffrage. They petition congress for "universal suffrage."

  • Ratification of the 14th Amendment

    Ratification of the 14th Amendment
    The 14th Amendment was ratified. The 14th Amendment stated "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside and that right may not be denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States."

  • Introduction of a Federal Women's Suffrage Amendment

    Introduction of a Federal Women's Suffrage Amendment
    Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces a Federal women's suffrage Amendment in Congress, but it is rejected.

  • The suffragists split into two organizations

    The suffragists split into two organizations
    There is a National Women's Suffrage Association and a American Women's Suffrage Association. On of them focus on getting voting rights through an amendment, while the other one focuses on getting voting rights through individual states.

  • Ratification of the 15th Amendment

    Ratification of the 15th Amendment
    The 15th Amendment is ratified. It states "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • Victoria Woodhull addresses the U.S. House of Representatives

    Victoria Woodhull addresses the U.S. House of Representatives
    Victoria Woodhull addresses the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She argued that women have the right to vote under the 14th Amendment. The committee rejects her argument.

  • Susan B. Anthony gets arrested

    Susan B. Anthony gets arrested
    Susan B. Anthony registers and votes for Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential election in New York. She was arrested, tried, and convicted in 1873. Her defense was that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment entitled her to vote.

  • Minor V. Happersett

    Minor V. Happersett
    The supreme court rules in Minor V. Happersett that the 14th Amendment does not give women the right to vote. The court said citizenship does not give women voting rights, and women's political rights are under individual states jurisdiction.

  • Declaration of Rights for Women

    Declaration of Rights for Women
    Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage disrupt the official U.S. Centennial program at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, presenting a Declaration of Rights for Women.

  • Introduction the Women Suffrage Amendment into Congress

    Introduction the Women Suffrage Amendment into Congress
    California senator A.A. Sergeant introduces the Women Suffrage Amendment into Congress. It includes the language that would eventually become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

  • NAOWS

    NAOWS
    The National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage (NAOWS) is organized.

  • Theodore supporting Women

    Theodore supporting Women
    Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party becomes the first national major political party to support women's suffrage.

  • Suffragist organize a parade in Washington, DC

    Suffragist organize a parade in Washington, DC
    Suffragist organize a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC known as the Women Suffrage Procession, it was the first public demonstration in the nation's capital for women's suffrage and called participants to march in spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, form which women are excluded.

  • The Transcontinental Tour

    The Transcontinental Tour
    Mabel Vernon and Sara Bard Field lead a Transcontinental Tour which gathers over 500,000 signatures on petitions to congress in favor of women's suffrage.

  • First Women elected to the House of Representatives

    First Women elected to the House of Representatives
    Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson states that the Democratic Party platform will support suffrage.

  • Woman's Suffrage Amendment

    Woman's Suffrage Amendment
    The Woman's Suffrage Amendment, which was originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. Wisconsin and Illinois are the first states to ratify it.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed, which allowed women the right to vote.