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women suffrage

By sigbernard

  • world anti-slavery convention

    world anti-slavery convention
    Elizabeth Stanton got inspiration to hold a women's right convention from the anti-slavery covention held in london

  • First convention

    First convention
    Three hundred people attended the the first women right convention,including many abolishionist like Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, and Frederick Douglas.Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments, which sets the agenda for decades of women's activism

  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    • The 14th amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word “male” officially excluding women’s suffrage. Anthony and Stanton are outraged. Arguments lead to a split in the movement.

  • American Woman Suffrage Association

    American Woman Suffrage Association
    • Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association; it allows only female membership and advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues. Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association, which supports the Fifteenth Amendment and invites men to participate.

  • Amendment rectification

    The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned away

  • full voting rights

    full voting rights
    Women in the Washington territory are granted full voting rights. Prominent suffragists travel to Liverpool, where they form the International Council of Women. At this meeting, the leaders of the National and American associations work together, laying the foundation for a reconciliation between these two groups.

  • Alice Paul

    • Suffragist Alice Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Washington. She becomes the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American association

  • Denial of the federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage.

    President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.

  • Nineteenth Amendment

    For a third time, the House votes to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment, and suffragists begin their ratification campaign.

  • Rectifcation of the Nineteenth Amendment

    Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee, three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August. American women win full voting rights.