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The first women’s rights convention in the world: The Seneca Falls Convention
The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, active members of the abolitionist movement who met in England in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention. -
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
with slavery abolished, a rift developed in the suffrage movement over how to gain suffrage. Anthony and Stanton founded the NWSA and campaigned for a constitutional amendment for universal suffrage in America, and for other women’s rights, such as changes in divorce laws and an end to employment and pay discrimination. -
the International Council of Women (ICW)
The first international women’s rights organization. -
National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
By the 1880s, it became clear that the two organizations (AWSA and NWSA) would be more effective if they merged back into one group, so they formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890, with Stanton as president and Anthony as vice president. -
American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Josephine Ruffin formed the less-radical AWSA to focus on obtaining suffrage for black men with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and on winning women’s right to vote state-by-state, ignoring the broader rights the NWSA was campaigning for. -
First country to grant national-level voting rights to women
It was the self-governing British colony of New Zealand, which passed the Electoral Bill in September 1893 -
International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA)
Because the ICW was reluctant to focus on suffrage, the IWSA was formed by British women’s rights activist Millicent Fawcett, American activist Carrie Chapman Catt, and other leading women’s rights activists. -
Congressional Union
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns became dissatisfied with the leadership and direction of the NWSA and formed the Congressional Union. Both women had assisted and learned from the British suffrage movement, which was much more radicalized and militant than the NWSA. -
Ratification Of The Nineteenth Amendment
The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. -
League of Women Voters
Chapman Catt formed the League of Women Voters during NAWSA’s last meeting on February 14, 1920, to help newly enfranchised women exercise their right to vote.