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Seneca Falls Convention
This was the first meeting for women to discuss voting rights. Wmoen split over the issue of the 14th and 15th amendment. -
Wyoming
Women tried to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote and a acheived a victory in Wymoing. -
Illegal Voting
Susan B. Anthony and other women attempted to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the Disrtict of Columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
Supreme Ruled that women were indeed citizens but then diened that citizensship automatically conferred the right to vote. -
1890 NAWSA Formed
After a few years States of Utah, colorado, and Idaho had also granted voting rights to women. The National American Women Suffrage Association formed. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S.women the right to vote in 1920. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial diseaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life form an industrial accdients in U.S. History. -
New NAWSA Tactics
Built alliances with local women's clubs as well as state and national groups, and even labor unions. -
More Radical Tactics
The government was recieving more money on the income tax than it had ever gained from tariffs. -
19th Amendment
Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment won final ratification in August 1920- 72 years after women had first cnverted and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
