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  Advocates for women's suffrage meet in Seneca Falls, New York, drafting a Declaration of Sentiments, proclaiming women deserve the same freedoms as men.
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  Lucretia Mott forms the AERA to "secure equal rights to all American citizens, especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color, or sex."
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  Elisabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the NWSA opposing the 15th amendment unless the ability applied to women as well. This organization worked to ensure women's suffrage through a federal constitutional amendment.
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  Congress ratifies 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote!
