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Married Women’s Property Acts took place in New York and gave women more property rights.
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The Seneca falls convention was an idea that stemmed from a meeting between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention where the two women were not allowed to be seated due to their sex. The Convention was held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls to draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, which calls for women’s right to vote and states that all men and women are created equal .
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Lucy Stone organized a larger assembly with a wider focus in Worcester, Massachesettes then Stanton's assembly in Seneca Falls. This led to the start of Susan B. Anthony's career in Women's Rights activism.
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Wyoming becomes first U.S. territory to pass a law permitting women to vote.
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15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote, thus further inspired the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
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Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women to serve on juries.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association was created to work toward securing voting rights for Women.
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Ida B. Wells launches her nation-wide anti-lynching campaign after the murder of three black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, later known as the National Women's Party . Members of the Woman's Party participated in hunger strikes, picketed the White House, and engaged in other forms of civil disobedience to publicize the suffrage cause.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified which gave women the right to vote.
