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Women Sufferage
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Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Staton and three other women were invited to a meeting at Seneca Falls to decide on what to do about Womens' Rights. -
Worchester, Massachusetts
The second convention for Womens' Rights was held. -
The Revolution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution, which becomes one of the most important radical periodicals of the women's movement, although it circulates for less than three years. Its motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!" -
Anthony arrested
For casting a ballot with 15 other women, Susan B. Anthony is arrested in New York. -
School Vote
Michigan and Minnesota give women the "school vote." -
Lucretia Mott Dies
Lucretia Mott Dies in 1880 -
NAWSA Established
In 1890 two seperatewoman suffrae groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
Susan B. Anthony
Two years after the NAWSA was founded, Susan B. Anthony became its second president. -
Woman Suffrage Party
On October 31, 1909; the Woman Suffrage Party was founded -
Women Suffrage Parade
The first Woman Suffrage Parade was held in New York City in 1910. -
Kansas Adopts
Kansas adopts the Constitutional Amendement -
President Wilson
President Wilson is inagurated -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA, argued that the nation could no longer deny the right to vote to women, who were supporting the war effort by selling war bonds and organizng benefits. -
Ninetheenth Amendment Ratified
In 1918, the states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women full voting rights. -
Wilson's Argument
President Wilson finally addresses the Senate personally, arguing for woman suffrage at the war's end.
