19th Amendment

By willenborg.katarina

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    The Seneca Falls Convention was held in New York. The Movement for women's rights started with Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The 200 women at this convention deeclared they needed to get the right for women to vote passed. They would work as hard as they could to get this done.

  • Wyoming gives women right to vote.

    Wyoming gives women right to vote.
    Wyoming gave women 21 years of age and older the right to vote. At this time Wyoming was only a territory not a state.
    Also in 1869, the National Women Suffrage Association was created.
    1869-Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell founded the American Women Suffrage Association.

  • NWSA

    NWSA
    The NWSA had gathered enough information in 1878 to influence the US Congress for an amendment. Congress started forming parties to look into and start debating on the issue.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    The NWSA and the AWSA came together to form the NAWSA. This new organizations strategy was to lobby for women's voting right by a state-by-state level. Within the next 6 years Colorado, Utah, and Idaho passed a state amendment.

  • Extending rights.

    Extending rights.
    From 1910 up until 1918 the Alaska Territory, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington's territories all gave women the right to vote.

  • Parade

    Parade
    In 1913, protestors marched to the nation's capital and were not very happy. Many women were hurt because they were going against the government.

  • Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    Alice Paul founded the National Women's Party. This group of women went to the White House and protested many times. Most of the time women were hurt or sent to jail.

  • President Wilson

    President Wilson
    President Wilson switched his view on women rights. He did this because of Alice Paul.

  • Passed

    Passed
    Senate passed the 19th amendment with two more votes than the two-thirds needed. Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. By March of the next year, 35 states had voted for the 19th amendment. They were only one short of the two-thirds the states needed. It was up to Tennessee to make or break the amendment.

  • Amendment is ratified.

    Amendment is ratified.
    Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment. After this is done women have the right to vote.