Amendment Project

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  • First Women's Rights Convention

    It was held in Seneca Falls, New York. There were 68 women and 32 men that signed a Declaration of Sentiments which outlined the agenda of the women's rights movement.

  • First National Women's Rights Convention

    Takes place in Worcester, Massachusetts attracting more than 1,000 participants. There were some famous people there like Fredrick Douglass, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelly Foster, and more.
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    The Civil War

    The Civil War begins and women's rights advocacy grinds to a halt until the war ends

  • The Anti-Suffrage Party Founded

    They thought women's political participation threatened their important roles as wives, mothers, educators, and philanthropists

  • Victoria Woodhull addresses the U.S. House

    She addresses the Judiciary Committee of the House arguing that women have the right to vote under the 14th amendment

  • Formation of the National American Women Suffrage Association

    The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merged to create the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.

  • Suffragists organize a parade in Washington, DC

    Suffragists organize a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. Known as the Woman Suffrage Procession, it was the first public demonstration in the nation’s capital for women’s suffrage and called participants to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.”

  • First women elected into House of Representatives

    Jeannette Rankin of Montana into the House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson stated that the Democratic platform would support Women Suffrage.

  • Formation of the League of Women Voters form

  • The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is certified as a law

    After Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution is certified as law, guaranteeing that “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 sex.”