Women's Suffarage

Timeline created by sandra Pierce in History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
04/09/1848	Seneca Falls Convention	This was the first womens convention to discuss voting rights. Women were split over the 14 and 15 Admendments. Some thought these Admendments should include women.
11/09/1869	Wyoming	They tried to convence state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. They achived a victory in the territory of Wyoming.
11/09/1871	Susan B. Anthony	Susan B Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote al least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia.
11/09/1875	Citizenship denied	In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed citizens but then denied that citizeneship automatically conferred the right to vote.
11/09/1890	Voting Rights to Women	By the 1890's Utah, Colorado. and Idahp had also granted voting rights to women.
11/09/1900	Carrie Chapman Catt	Served from 1900 to 1904 and resumed presidency in 1915.
11/09/1911	Triangle Shitrwaist Factory.	Womens ranks grew after 146 workers, mostly young women died in a 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
11/09/1915	New NAWSA Tactics	She contrated on five new tactics. 1). painstaking organiation 2). colse ties between local, state, and national workers. 3).establishing a wide base of support 4). cautious lobbying 5). gracious, lady like behavior.
11/09/1917	More Radical Tactics	By 1917 Paul had organized her followers to mount a round-the- clock picket line around the White House. Some of the picketers were arrested, jailed, and even force-fed when they attempted a hunger strike.
11/09/1919	19th Admendment	Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. The amendment wom final ratification in August 1920 --- 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.