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Seneca Falls, New York
Declaration of Sentiments was signed. Seneca Falls is the first location for the Women's Rights Convention. -
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Civil War
Woman Suffrage is halted in order for women to help with the war. -
Emancipation
One of the things that pulled the focus from the woman suffrage campaign and yet called it to attention -
NWSA / AWSA and Wyoming
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association based in New York.
Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe form the American Woman Suffrage Association in Boston. Wyoming first state to usher in woman suffrage -
Fifteenth Amendment
The fifteenth amendment gave black men the right to vote. This took attention away from the women suffrage campaign.
The Woman's Journal Debut -
First vote
Woman suffrage is voted on in the Senate and was defeated -
NAWSA
The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association merge. Pledge to state-by-state campaigns for suffrage -
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The progressive era
The progressive era helped expand the roles of women and increasing the publicity of woman suffrage campaign -
Colorado
woman's suffrage is adopted by Colorado. -
UTAH and IDAHO
Utah joins the Union, granting women full suffrage
Idaho adopts woman suffrage -
Washington Parade
The day before President Wilson's inauguration, suffragists parade in Washington, D.C organized by Alice Paul. -
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World War I
World War I was both a distraction to the Suffrage because women had to help with the war effort and also this helped with getting the 19th amendment passed and ratified -
Defeat
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts reject women suffrage -
President Wilson
President Wilson addresses the Senate, arguing for woman suffrage at the end of the war. -
19th Amendment Pass
Nineteenth Amendment passed with just two votes to spare. Drafted by Susan B Anthony. -
The 19th Ammendment
The nineteenth amendment is ratified in the U.S. Constitution. Declaring that citizen's right to vote will not be denied by any state on account of sex.
