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Temperance leagues
The first thing woman tried to enforce was the temperance league. They were tired of their husbands coming home drunk and then not helping around the house. They were fighting for prohibition. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's rights started to build at a national level. The first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. More than 300 people attended this event mostly women but some men did as well. Their belief was that women should be offered better opportunities for education and employment. -
First national woman's rights convention
The convention repeated annually providing an important focus for the growing woman suffrage movement it was held in Worcester Massachusetts. -
Ain't I a Women speech
At the Ohio women's rights convention, Sojourner Truth reads a speech that is regarded as one of the most powerful moments in the early women's liberation movement. -
National women suffrage Association
was formed with the purpose of fighting for a federal constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote. -
Congress formed a committee to debate suffrage
The suffrage movement has gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S congress for a constitutional amendment. Congress responded by forming committees however when the proposal finally reached the senate floor in 1886 it was defeated. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
In 1890 the new organization's strategy was to lobby for women's voting right's on a state-by-state basis. -
Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women to vote
Wyoming joined the union and allowed women to vote to encourage more women to settle in wyoming. -
Woman suffrage amendment passed
It had passed with a necessary two-thirds majority vote. in June 1919 it was approved by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification. -
When women got the right to vote
19th Amendment was certified by u.s secretary of state Bainbridge Colby, and women finally achieved the long-sought right to vote throughout the United States.