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Seneca Falls Convention (New York)
The first gathering devoted to women's rights in US
Organizer: Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Stanton & Anthony alliance
Stanton and Susan Anthony met and create a lifetime alliance as women's rights activist. They lobbied Congress to icnlude women in provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendment but unsuccesfully. -
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
This organization was created by Stanton and Anthony, which directed its efforts toward changing federal law and opposed the 15th Amendment. -
American Woman Suffrage Association
This organization was created at the same time with NWSA by Lucy Stone. Because of racial differences them rejected NWSA's agenda. -
Wyoming trusts in Women
Wyoming was the first state to grant women complete voting rights with efforts by NAWSA. -
Introduction in Congress of a women's suffrage amendment
Senator Aaron Sargent (California) was responsible of this huge effort in Congress. At the same time, NWSA recluted people and votes to win woting rigths at the federal level. -
Fighting for woman's rights
It was one of the most hard decades because NWSA and AWSA haven't attracted broad support from women or presuaded male politicians to adopt its cause. -
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Volunteerism & Charity
The whole nation experienced this phenomena among middle-class women. It was the perfect moment for woman to take a main participation yet voting rights was no clearly defined. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
It was the union of Stanton's and Stone's associations to get more results so with some other organizations directed by woman: Women's Trade Union League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the National Consumer League. -
Colorado trusts in Women
Another state to grant voting rights to women. -
Utah trusts in Women
Another state to grant voting rights to women. -
Idaho trusts in Women
Another state to grant voting rights to women. -
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Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas and Oregon trust in Women
By efforts of NAWSA these states extended the franchise to women. -
Ruth Hanna McCormick
She, as a future Congresswoman, helped lead the fight for suffrage as a lobbyist in Springfield. This year the state legislature granted women the right to vote: it was the first victory for women in a state east of the Mississippi River. -
Alice Paul as a quick hope
She had experience in the English suffrage movement. That's why she ran a very quick but hard race picketing and conducting mass rallies and marches to raise public awareness an support by criticizing the Democratic administration of president Woodrow Wilson for obstructing the extension of the vote to women. -
Jeannette Rankin
Another future Congresswoman. By her labor Montana State granted women the right to vote. -
Carrie Chapnam Catt
She was a former an president of the NAWSA. She, quietly but perseveringly, created the "Winning Plan" which was directed to achieve referenda on the vote, especially in non-Western states. -
A woman in the Congress
This year Jeannette Rankin was sworn into the 65th Congress on April 2, as the first woman to serve in the national legislature. -
Arkansas and New York trust in Women
Those states and key victories in the South and East, granted partial and full voting rights, respectively. -
Woodrow Wilson, as the President, makes a dream come truth
The President Wilson urged the Congress to pass a voting rights amendment. -
"Make the world safe for democracy"
The First Wolrd War was in course and woman's voting rights activists embraced the war cause: The NAWSA said democracy was fake in a country without voting rights to all its citizens. Responding to these overtures, the House of Representatives initially passed a voting rights amendment on January 10, but the Senate did not follow suit before the end of the 65th Congress. -
19th Amendment
After the war, Congress disscused since May 21, 1919, and the Senate concurring on June 14, 1919, about women's voting rights. But a year later, the 19th Amendment, was ratified when Tenesse became the 36th state to approve it.
