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The Beginning of Women's Rights
Elizabeth Stanton was withheld from attending the Worlds anti-slavery convention because she was a woman. From being withheld, due to her gender, Stanton chose to hold the first women's convention in the United States -
Pauline Wright Davis
Davis was active in the early antislavery and women's rights movements, and she also created the Una which was the first womens right paper in the United States -
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The Battle for Womens Rights
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The First Gathering
The first gathering devoted to women's rights in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Anthony was a major figure in the womans rights movement. She fought for equal pay of women teachers, for coeducation, and for college training of girls. Anthony worked with Stanton to create the National Womens Suffrage Association (NWSA), which she later become the president of. Susan Anthony worked to pass the first laws in New York for women to have over their children -
Married Womens Property Bill
The married womens property bill passes in the United States congress. With the passing of this bill, came the rights for women to be able to sue, be sued, inherit and own property -
American Equal Rights Association
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony came together again to create the American Equal Rights Association, which worked towards removing any aspects of womens sufferage, regardless of the race. This way an attempt to join the two causes of womens sufferage and slavery along with the 14th and 15th amendment -
Introduction to Congress
This is the day the federal womens suffrage amendment is first introduced in Congress, and it was introduced by Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas -
Factions of the sufferage movement
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony came together and created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), which was created to direct its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment because it excluded women -
Arrest of Susan B. Anthony
Anthony casts her vote for President Ulysses S. Grant, and is arrested and brought to trail for illegal voting. 15 other women are arrested for illegal voting as well. -
Womans Sufferage Amendment
First woman's sufferage amendment in proposed in the United States congress. When the 19th amendment is passed 41 years later, it is worded exactly the same as the 1878 Amendment -
Taken to the Senate
The first vote on womens sufferage is taken in the senate and is defeated -
Muller vs. Oregon
This case was a landmark in the history of gender equality. This issues of this case lead to a discussion of womens rights and gender equality -
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns conducted the first ever open air suffrage meeting in Philadelphia. -
President Wilson
This was the day that Wilson first stated his public support on the federal woman suffrage amendment -
President Wilson and fight for womens rights
President Wilson finally addressed the senate, and personally argued for woman suffrage at the ending of the war -
Full Voting Rights
Three quarters of the state finally ratify the ninteenth amendment, leading to the full voting rights of women -
Nellie Ross
Nellie Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in the United States -
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins is sworn in as a secretary of labor. She became the first woman in the United States cabinet -
Griswold vs. Connecticut
One of the most important cases in womens rights history, which established a right to privacy within marriage. Married women were given the right to use contraceptives by the right of privacy
