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Elizabeth Cady Staton and three other women were invited to a meeting at Seneca Falls to decide on what to do about Womens' Rights.
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The second convention for Womens' Rights was held.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution, which becomes one of the most important radical periodicals of the women's movement, although it circulates for less than three years. Its motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!"
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For casting a ballot with 15 other women, Susan B. Anthony is arrested in New York.
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Michigan and Minnesota give women the "school vote."
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Lucretia Mott Dies in 1880
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In 1890 two seperatewoman suffrae groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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Two years after the NAWSA was founded, Susan B. Anthony became its second president.
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On October 31, 1909; the Woman Suffrage Party was founded
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The first Woman Suffrage Parade was held in New York City in 1910.
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Kansas adopts the Constitutional Amendement
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President Wilson is inagurated
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Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA, argued that the nation could no longer deny the right to vote to women, who were supporting the war effort by selling war bonds and organizng benefits.
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In 1918, the states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women full voting rights.
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President Wilson finally addresses the Senate personally, arguing for woman suffrage at the war's end.
