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Women's Suffrage

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  • Equal Pay - Susan B Anthony

    Equal Pay - Susan B Anthony
    Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers.
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    The timeline

  • Women's Rights Convention

    Women's Rights Convention
    July 19-20: Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, issuing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1848/a/seneca_declartn.htm

  • First National Woman's Rights Convention

    First National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • Sojourner Truth

    Sojourner Truth defends woman's rights and "Negroes' rights" at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio.

  • Stone/Blackwell Marriage Protest

    Stone/Blackwell Marriage Protest
    http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/stoneblackwellmarriageprotest.htmlLucy Stone and Henry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name.

  • American Equal Rights Association joins cause

    American Equal Rights Association to join causes of black suffrage and women's suffrage

  • 15th Amendment Ratified

    15th Amendment ratified, adding the word "male" to the Constitution for the first time.

  • American Woman Suffrage Association

    American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe.

  • Wyoming territory includes woman suffrage.

    Wyoming territory includes woman suffrage.

  • 15th Amendment Adopted

    15th Amendment adopted, prohibiting states from preventing citizens from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." From 1870 - 1875, women attempted to use the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to justify voting and the practice of law.

  • Platform Includes Woman Suffrage

    Republican Party platform included a reference to woman suffrage.
    Campaign was initiated by Susan B. Anthony to encourage women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification.

  • Susan B Anthony Arrested

    Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote; some, including Anthony, are arrested.

  • Anthony Tried

    Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting.

  • Anthony Amendment

    January 10: The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced for the first time in the United States Congress. First Senate committee hearing on the Anthony Amendment.

  • Senate Votes on Suffrage

    The United States Senate voted on woman suffrage for the first time -- and also for the last time in 25 years.

  • Colorado becomes first to grant Woman Suffrage

    Colorado passed by referendum an amendment to their state constitution, giving women the right to vote. Colorado was the first to amend its constitution to grant woman suffrage.

  • Utah & Idaho Pass Woman Suffrage Laws

  • Susan B Anthony Dies

  • Washington State established Woman Suffrage

  • Woman's March

    Women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote.

  • Illinois Gives Woman The Vote

    Women in Illinois were given the vote in most elections -- the first state East of the Mississippi to pass a woman suffrage law.

  • Pennsylvania Aveune March

    About 5,000 paraded for woman suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

  • Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress

    Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress
    Montana elected Jeannette Rankin to the United States Congress.

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association meets with President Wilson

    National American Woman Suffrage Association officers meet with President Wilson. National Woman's Party began picketing the White House.

  • Anthony Amendment - Pass/Fail

    House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment but the Senate failed to pass it.

  • Protest Arrests Invalid

    A court declared invalid the White House suffrage protest arrests

  • United States House of Representatives pass Anthony Amendemnt Again

  • United States Senate approves Anthony Amendment

  • Tennessee Ratifies the Anthony Amendment

    Tennessee legislature ratified the Anthony Amendment by a single vote, giving the Amendment the necessary states for ratification.

  • Tennessee Governor signs Anthony Amendment

  • Anthony Amendment signed into Law

    United States Secretary of State signed the Anthony Amendment into law.

  • Equal Rights Amendment

    Equal Rights Amendment introduced into the United States Congress, proposed by the National Woman's Party.