suffrage

By Ghadee9
  • First Womens Rights Convention

    First Womens Rights Convention
    Took place at Seneca Falls, Charlotte Woodward, Fedrick Douglas, And Amelia Bloomer were seen at the convention.
    It was a large meeting to discuss wmen rights and there lack of participation in the things that men do like vote andhave the freedom to leave their houses at will.
  • Sojourner Truth

    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth was a woman who felt that she should have the same rights as white women while the white women are fighting for their rights but black Women are still under white man rule
    so she makes the speech "Aint I a women?" at the womens rights convention in Akron.
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War
    Women had to almost put the whole suffrage campaign on hold to help the men fighting in the civil war.
  • The Set Back

    The Set Back
    Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Clarina Nichols travel to Kansas agitate for women's Suffrage. Ater days and months of campaigning, the Suffragists are defeated on the fall ballot. also people argue about putting the enfranchisement of black men.
  • Membership

    Membership
    Stanton and Anthony form the Nationnal Woman Suffrage Association it only allowed women to join but after a period of time they allowed men to join also.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony
    Susan was arrested in New York for illegal voting, she also refused to pay her streetcar fare because she was "Traveling under protest at the governments expense."
  • Close to success

    Close to success
    Women in washington Territory are granted full voting rights.
    Suffragists travel to liverpool, there they create the International Council of Women.
  • The Merging

    The Merging
    The National and American Associations collaborate to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton becomes the new President of the association.
  • Retirement

    Retirement
    Susan B. Anthony retires as the president of the national american and surprisingly recommends Carrie Chapmen Catt as the next president, she is elected.
  • Success

    Success
    Three Quarters of stats legislatures ratify the ninteenth amendment on the 26 of august. American women win full voting rights