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Education for Women
Emma Willard opens The Troy Female Seminary, in Troy, New York. The school thrived. -
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Womens Rights 1800's
Before the Womens Rights reform movements, women were inferior to men. Women did not have the same rights as men including, the right to own property, and the right to vote. These Womens Rights reforms in the 1800's are important because they were the start to all womens rights reforms. Today, women have the same rights as men and are equal to men. Without the womens rights reform movements in the 1800's, rights for women today might be much more limited. -
Womens Rights book published
Angelina Grimke publishes a book speaking out against opression and cruelty to women called "An Appeal to Christian Women of the South" -
Mott and Stanton Vow to Hold Convention
When Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were unallowed to attend that Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention, the two women vowed to "hold convention... and form a society to advocate the rights of women". -
First Womens Rights Convention
The first Womens Rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention is lead by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucricia Mott. -
Married Womens Property Act
This act passed in New York, allows women to own and control their own property. -
First Medical Graduate
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female to graduate from medical college. She later goes on to open the New York Infimary for Women and Children. -
Property Rights
The first state constitution in California allows women the right to own property. -
American Equal Right Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association which faught for all forms of equality. -
Anti-Suffrage Party is founded
Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to vote under the fourteenth amendment. Anti-Suffrage Party is founded as a result. -
Federal Suffrage Association
Olympia Brown founds the Federal Suffrage Association to campaign for woman’s suffrage -
MLA Citation
Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840-1920), National Women's History Museum, Unknown, 1/10/13, http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/history/woman-suffrage-timeline
