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The beginning of the women's sufferage movement was with the "Declaration of Sentiments", written at Seneca Falls, New York. That was the first women's rights convention.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women suffragists, started the National Women Sufferage Association. NWSA were agressive in their attempts to gain sufferage.
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American Woman Sufferage Association was started by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Like NWSA, they wanted women's sufferage, but they didn't agree with the agressive ways of NWSA.
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Susan B. Anthony illegally voted in Rochester, New York. She was arrested and given a fine, which she refused to pay.
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An amendment stating "The right of citizens to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or by any state on the account of sex." That amendment was proposed for the next 41 years.
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NWSA and AWSA joined to make National American Woman Sufferage Association. Elizabeth Stantion was NAWSA's president.
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Wyoming, which allowed women to vote, was admitted as a state in 1890. Wyoming was the first state with women sufferage.
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During WW1 women helped with the war effort in many ways. This stopped almost all remaining opposition about women's sufferage.
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In May 1919, the amendment finally got the 2/3 vote necissary to send it to the states to be ratified.
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The majority of the southern state opposed women's sufferage. The vote came down to Tennessee, and it seemed the amendment wouldn't be passed by a loss of one vote. Harry Burns suprised everyone and voted for ratification. Women officially had the right to vote.
