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Women start fighting for the right to vote and run for office
A group of abolitionist activists that were mostly women start to talk about women's rights. Suffragists view this as the meeting that started the women's suffrage movement. -
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Women's Suffrage Battle
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The Washington Monument is established
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Susan B anthony picture
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Women's Suffrage Association
Susan B Anthony even joined up with the American Women's Suffrage Association, making the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Susan B. Anthony traveled a lot for Women's rights and even gave 75 to 100 speeches a year.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton also helped create NAWSA and focused on more generalised women's issues. Her Declaration of Sentiments is widely regarded as the start of organised women's suffrage movements. She presidented NAWSA from 1890 to 1892 -
The Tremont house in Boston becomes the first hotel to have indoor plumbing.
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National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage Forms
Anti-Suffragist views dominated among the population through out the 20th century but the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage was created in 1911 to fight against women's suffrage activists -
Alice paul Leaves the National American Women's Suffrage Association and starts her own.
Alice started the National Woman's Party and used more eventful ways to start pushing even harder for women's suffrage. -
Women get the right to vote and run for office
On August 18, 1920 the 19th amendment was ratified and women were allowed to vote and run for office. It was a long hard fought victory for women's rights activists who were trying for this for 72 years.
