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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1840 these women were barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London -
The first Woman's Rights Convention
In 1848 Seneca Falls, New York is the location for the first Women's Rights Convention -
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Feminist movements
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constitution
The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women. -
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site of the first National Women's Rights Convention. A strong alliance is formed with the Abolitionist Movement. -
National Women's Rights Convention.
At a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech, "Ain't I a woman?" -
women's property rights
The issue of women's property rights is presented to the Vermont Senate by Clara Howard Nichols. This is a major issue for the Suffragists. -
Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony
Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City. -
the American Equal Rights Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony forms the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race. -
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to vote under the fourteenth amendment.
The Anti-Suffrage Party is founded. -
Woman Suffrage Amendment
A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. When the 19th Amendment passes forty-one years later, it is worded exactly the same as this 1878 Amendment. -
The first vote
The first vote on woman suffrage is taken in the Senate and is defeated. -
Federal Suffrage Association
Olympia Brown founds the Federal Suffrage Association to campaign for woman’s suffrage. -
woman suffrage
Colorado adopts woman suffrage. -
Constitutional Convention
600,000 signatures are presented to the New York State Constitutional Convention in a failed effort to bring a woman suffrage amendment to the voters. -
woman suffrage
Washington State adopts woman suffrage. The Women’s Political Union organizes the first suffrage parade in New York City. -
The National Federation of Women’s Clubs
Nevada and Montana adopt woman suffrage. The National Federation of Women’s Clubs, which had over two million women members throughout the U.S., formally endorses the suffrage campaign. -
reject woman suffrage
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts continue to reject woman suffrage. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment and the ratification process begins. -
Nineteenth Amendment.
Three-quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.