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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
NWSA wanted to achieve the right to vote through a Constitutional amendment as well as fight for other issues. The NWSA believed that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments discriminated against women. The NWSA also wanted easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay. NWSA was based in New York City.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested and brought to trial in Rochester, New York
Susan B. Anthony Arrested in Rochester,NY for casting an illegal vote.
Corbett, P. Scott et al., U.S. History.2014
Ruth Pollak, American Experience, "One Woman, One, Vote" -
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed
It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.
Called for major reforms including women's suffrage and social welfare assistance. In his autobiography he wrote..."Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man."...
Women's Rights; and The Duties of Both Men and Women. Theodore Roosevelt Collection. MS Am 1454.50 (161). Harvard College Library -
Representative Rankin opens debate on a suffrage amendment in the House
Rep. Jeannette Rankin of Montana, became the first woman elected to Congress. Rankin fought for woman suffrage, opening the first congressional debate ever held on the subject. The amendment fail to win the required two thirds majority in the Senate. Rankin states ..."It would be strange indeed if the women of this country through all these years had not developed an intelligence..".
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American Women win full voting rights with 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment became law guaranting all American women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was declared in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby
The Constitution of the United States," Amendment 19.
