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Seneca falls convention
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman's rights convention,the first ever held in the United States,convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. -
colorado passes suffrage law
In 1896 women had full suffrage in only three states all of them in the West. Wyoming gave women the vote in 1869, when the state was still a territory. Colorado women won suffrage in an 1893 referendum backed by a Populist administration and by some Republicans. -
15 Admendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Susan B Anthony
Susan B. Anthony cast a ballot in the presidential election, though women at the time were prohibited from doing so. Two weeks later, she was arrested, and the following year, she was found guilty of illegal voting. It would take another 50 years until the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1920, would grant women nationwide the right to vote. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton served as a nurse during the Civil War. She experienced a lot of hardship trying to get to wounded bodie.A few years later, she was in Europe, which was having yet another war. The International Red Cross, which provides care for all soldiers, regardless of which side, and at whose nurses and doctors militaries agree not to shoot, was in effect, and Miss Barton admired it. She tried to get the US to join the Internation Red Cross. -
19th Admendment
Victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. -
Wyoming territory passes women's suffrage law
Motivated more by interest in free publicity than a commitment to gender equality, Wyoming territorial legislators pass a bill that is signed into law granting women the right to vote. -
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
Throughout 1915, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the Congressional Union organized state branches, held a national convention of women voters, collected 500,000 signatures on a suffrage petition, and testified before Congress, among other activities. At the end of the year, CU and NAWSA made a last attempt to reconcile, but the attempt failed. In June 1916, CU’s leaders formed the National Woman’s Party.