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Seneca Fall Convention
Seneca Falls, New York, would hold the first women's right convention. There were over 300 men and women that attended that convention. The meeting comprised six sessions including a lecture on law, a humorous presentation, and multiple discussions about the role of women in society.This also referred to the birthplace of the feminist movement. The conventions Declarations of Sentiments became one of the most influencing factors of getting the news of women’s right to the nation. -
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Rights for Women
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Womens Suffrage
Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association with the primary goal to achieve voting rights for women through a Congressional amendment to the US Constitution. In 1869, however, a rift developed among feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave the vote to black men. The women of that time argued that once the black men could vote so could they. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony casts her first vote as an attempt to test whether the Fourteenth Amendment would be interpreted broadly to guarantee women the right to vote. She was tried in June 17-18, 1873 in Canandaigua, New York and found guilty of "unlawful voting." She also refused to pay the fine after she was arrested. Susan B. Anthony traveled the nation and gave speeches about women’s rights and when she first started speaking she was accused of defiling the sanctity of marriage. -
Women's Suffrage Admendment Proposed
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Jane Adams
Jane Adam in 1889 formed the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. The Hull House fought for reform and justice.Jane Adams focus was on public health and world peace. She was a supporter of the Progressive Party and was the chairman of the Woman’s Peace Party. She also supported Theodore Roosevelt for the President of 1912. Jane Adams would be the first woman in receive the Nobel Prize. -
Parade
There was a national suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C., the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. The parade was arranged by the Congressional Committees of the national women’s suffrage, Alice Paul was a main organizer of the parade. The march and the attention that it attracted were monumental in advancing women's suffrage in the United States.[2] Lawyer Inez Milholland led the great woman suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital. -
New York March
“A vote for suffrage is a vote for justice” and “You trust us with the children; trust us with the vote.” It was Oct. 23, 1915, and over 25,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City to advocate for women’s suffrage. At that point, the fight had been ongoing for more than 65 years, with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 first passing a resolution in favor of women’s suffrage. The women that marched were tired of being seen as misguided housewives. -
First Woman in Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was a politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold national office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.[1] She was part of the Progressive Era and a Republican. Jeannette Rankin played a instrumental role in the passage of the 19th Amendment.
1. Laura van Assendelft and Jeffrey D. Schultz, Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics (1998) pp. 188, 310–18 -
Women can vote
August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified to the Constitution This Amendmnt gave all the America woman the right vote. It effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett, in which a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give women the right to vote. Women are finally being seen as equals.
