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Signing of Deceleration of Sentiments
This signing started the ball rolling for the Women's Rights Movement. -
First National Women's Rights Convention
This national convention would become a yearly event, the first one had over 1,000 attendees. -
The Women’s Suffrage Amendment is first introduced to congress
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Colorado becomes first states to accept the amendment
By doing this they allowed women to vote -
National Association of Colored Women is formed
This brought together more than 100 colored women -
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
They were trying to secure the right for women to vote -
Women arrested for protesting
This is when they started the hunger strike in jail -
Bad backlash for forcing the women to eat
President Wilson saod that women's suffrage was urgently needed as a "war measure." -
The women's suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives
It is then sent to the states for ratification -
The 19th Amendment to the Consitution
Is signed into law, now allowing women the right to vote