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19th Amendment

By Alikxarae

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women's rights convention in July 1848, called the Seneca Falls Convention. In this convention, they created a list of demands like the Declaration of Independence, but they called it the Declaration of Sentiments. In this convention, they wanted to create a better education system and to have more professional jobs for women. This convention did not lead to any good, it just ended up creating more problems about voting.

  • "Ain't I A Women"

    "Ain't I A Women"
    Sojourner Truth gave a popular speech at the Women's Convention in Ohio in 1851. This speech is very controversial and talks about how whites get more privileges than blacks do. She talks about how it matters about the gender you are and the race that you are. She just wanted equality and the same attention that white women got. You can see how much progress has been since then.

  • NWSA

    NWSA
    National Women Suffrage Association dealt with the 15th Amendment which this organization didn't like because it excluded women but gave African Americans the right to vote and they didn't think it was fair. After the 15th Amendment was ratified the NWSA created a petition of voting rights that they would take to the Senate along with bringing it to the House of Representatives. They were hoping to get it signed to extend women's suffrage rights, also let them be heard on the floor of Congress.

  • Wyoming- 1st State to allow women to vote

    Wyoming- 1st State to allow women to vote
    Wyoming became the first state to adopt women's suffrage, and allow women the right to vote. Wyoming then got the nickname "The Equality State"

  • Illegal Voting

    Illegal Voting
    More than a dozen women, who were upset about not having the right to vote, went to the presidential election and voted illegally. Susan B was the only one arrested in Rochester, New York.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    National American Women Suffrage Association was the country's largest women's suffrage organization and it was founded in 1890. This organization created many problems for the vote through the 1920s after the 19th amendment was ratified.

  • NACWC

    NACWC
    Multiple women including the following, Harriet Tubman, Frances E.W. Harper, Ida B Wells Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, for the National Association of Colored Women Clubs. They formed this organization so they could gain the same rights that everyone else was granted besides the colored women.

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    They made sure Women's Suffrage was recognized as a "war measure". Alice Paul, and other women that were imprisoned, were treated very badly. And everyone knew about it and started to get angry.

  • Susan B Anthony Amendment

    Susan B Anthony Amendment
    This amendment was brought up and referred to the women's suffrage committee on May 19th. After it reached the committee, it passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate on June 4, 1919.

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Ratification of the 19th Amendment
    The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. Leading up to this ratification it took many conventions, convincing, and a lot of protests. 3/4 of the states passed the Amendment, and Tennessee became the last state to do so on August 18, 1920, which was 36 states in total.