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Lucretia Mott
Mott was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Female
Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. -
Abolitionism
Seeking their own rights, women used more peaceful tactics
but suffered long delays. ... The women's rights movement
was the offspring of abolition. Many people actively supported
both reforms. Several participants in the 1848 First Women's
Rights Convention in Seneca Falls had already labored in the
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First National Woman's Rights Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement,
which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to
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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights
convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the
social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls,
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and
women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial
inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered extemporaneously
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Susan B. Anthony
Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two women
became good friends and worked together for over 50 years
fighting for women’s rights.
In 1868 they became editors of the Association’s newspaper,
The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality
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American Civil War
During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a
halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the
American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to
the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1862, the Stantons moved to Brooklyn and later New York City.
There she also became involved in Civil War efforts and joined
with Anthony to advocate for the 13th Amendment, which ended
slavery. -
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Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded
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Wyoming becomes a U.S. state
Wyoming became the 44th state to join the union in 1890.
Wyoming was the first U.S. state to allow women to
vote–an achievement that represented one of the early
victories of the American women’s suffrage movement. -
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World War I
Women's massive participation in the war effort led, in part,
to a wave of global suffrage in the wake of the war. Women
got the right to vote in Canada in 1917, in Britain, Germany,
and Poland in 1918, and in Austria and the Netherlands in
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Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying
the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis
of sex.