Women Rights 1776-1920

By Nour Essam

  • 1850-1861

    The women's rights conventions was held. The last tradition was held in 1861, in Albany, New York. This was the time of the Civil War and ladies set aside suffrage exercises to help the war exertion. In 1850, the women's rights convention was held in April in Salem, Ohio. The first national women's rights tradition was held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • 1868-1869

    The fifteenth amendment passes Congress, giving the vote to black men. Women petition to be incorporated but were turned down. The New Britain Women Suffrage Affiliation was framed. In New Jersey, 172 ladies attempted to vote, but their votes are overlooked.

  • 1870-1871

    The Fifteenth Amendment was approved and 42 other ladies attempted to vote in Massachusetts; their votes were disregarded and the Anti-Suffrage Society is shaped.

  • 1893-1896

    In spite of 600,000 signatures, a petition for women’s suffrage is disregarded in New York.

  • 1913

    The Women's Suffrage parade on the eve of Wilson's initiation is assaulted by a mob. Several ladies are harmed and no arrests are made.

  • 1919

    In January, the NWP(National Women's Gathering) lights and protects a "Watchfire for Freedom." It is maintained until the Suffrage Amendment passes the US Senate on June 4. The fight for confirmation by no less than 36 states starts.

  • 1920

    The Nineteenth Amendment, is approved by Tennessee on August 18 and it gets to be law on August 26. It guaranteed the rights of all women to vote. Black women could likewise vote, yet most couldn't in view of the high poll taxes. It wasn't until around 100 years after, that they really had the privilege to vote.

  • 1776-1848

    The US Constitutional Convention places voting capabilities in the hands of the states. Ladies in all states aside from New Jersey lose the privilege to vote. In 1807 ladies lose the privilege to vote in New Jersey, the last state to renounce the privilege. In 1840, the Anti-Slavery convention was held in London and ladies were banned from taking part. In 1848, the first Women's Rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. After a decade, it is adopted.