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The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women
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In Worcester Massachusetts, the first National Women's Rights Convention is being held. A strong alliance is formed with the Ablolishtonist Movement.
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Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her "Ain't I a Women" speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio
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Worcester, Massachusetts is the site of the second National Women's Rights Convention. Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers, attended.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is published and quickly becomes a bestseller.
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During the Civil War, the efforts for the suffrage come to a halt. Women put their energies towards war effort. 1861-1865
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race.
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A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. When the 19th Amendment passes forty-one years later, it is worded exactly the same as this 1878 Amendment.
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Woman Suffrage is supported for the first time at the national level by a major political party -- Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party.
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Representative Rankin opens debate on a suffrage amendment in the House. The amendment passes. The amendment fails to win the required two thirds majority in the Senate.
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President Wilson addresses the Senate about adopting woman suffrage at the end of World War 1
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The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment and the ratification process begins
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Three-quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American women win full voting rights.