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Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions issued by the Convention, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence, detailed the "injuries and usurpations" that men had inflicted upon women and demanded that women be granted all of the rights and privileges that men possessed, including the right to vote. -
Wyoming
First state to allow women to vote. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women tested the question, Weren't women citizens too?, by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
Rules that women were citizens, but then denied that citizenship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
NAWSA Formed
This organization worked tirelessly to gain women the right to vote on a constitutional amendment level and state level. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
She was a women's rights activist who became NASWA president. -
Triangle Shirtwaste Fire
It brought the middle and upper classes into the public sphere for women's suffrage creating womens clubs that grew into reform groups that adressed issues. This helped spread the word. -
New NAWSA Tactics
painstaking organizations; close ties between local, state, and national workers; establishing a wide base of support; and caustious lobbying -
More Radicals Tactics
suffrage amendments -
19th amendments
granted women the right to vote