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Women's Convention in Seneca Falls
The women's convention in Seneca Falls was the first convention to support women's rights and suffrage with around 200 women attending. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton, who shared the "Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances." The declaration was adopted and signed by the assembly; it detailed the injustices inflicted upon women and called upon the women in the U.S. to petition for their rights. LINK TEXT 1 -
14th Amendment
The fourteenth amendment was important because it used the word "male" explicitly addressing voting rights. Women's rights supporters were outraged and the amendment was flawed in only applying voting rights to males. The ratification signified betraying efforts for the equality of sexes. LINK TEXT 2 -
National American Women Suffrage Association
The National American Women Suffrage Association was formed by merging the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association. This becomes the women's rights movement mainstream organization and begins state-to-states campaigns for women's voting rights. 3 -
Congressional Union
The congressional union (CU) is formed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to work toward the passage of the federal amendment for women to gain the right to vote. This same group is later known as the National Women's Party. 4 -
19th Amendment
On August 26th, 1920, the nineteenth amendment to the constitution was signed into law granting women the right to vote. The nineteenth amendment prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. 5 -
Works Cited
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKasgKQFe2w
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seneca-falls-convention-begins 2) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html 3) http://womenshistory.about.com/od/laws/a/equal_protect.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXz1Qn5OIb4 4) https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/alice-paul/
http://www.slideshare.net/bobbieo33/womens-rights-51693632 5) http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment
