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Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls Convention Research Seneca Falls was the first convention for women's rights in the United States. 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Sentiments, calling for equal rights for women and men, along with voting rights for women. -
National Woman Suffrage Association created
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. Their goal was to amend the Constitution and nationalize women's suffrage. -
American Woman Suffrage Association created
Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, along with others, form the AWSA. This group wanted to promote women's suffrage through amending state constitutions -
The NWSA and the AWSA merge
The National American Woman Suffrage Association is born. Their goal was to obtain voting rights for women by fighting for it state by state. -
Women get to vote
Colorado is the first state granted the right of women to vote. -
National Women's Party
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union, whose goal is to pass a federal amendment that guarantees the right of women to vote. -
Passing Congress
The federal women's suffrage amendment, orginally written by Susan B. Anthony 40 years earlier, is passed by both houses of Congress, beginning the long process of the states ratifiying it. -
The 19th Amendment
Women are granted the right to vote on a national level.
