Votes for women

Woman Suffrage Timeline Project

  • Troy Female Seminary founded.

    Troy Female Seminary founded.
    Emma Hart founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York.
  • National Female Anti-Slavery Society.

    National Female Anti-Slavery Society.
    The first National Female Anti-Slavery Society meets for a convention in New York City.
  • First womens rights convention.

    First womens rights convention.
    The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. Twelve resolutions are made, creating equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.
  • First National Woman's Rights convnetion.

    First National Woman's Rights convnetion.
    The first National Woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.
  • National Woman's Suffrage Association is founded.

    National Woman's Suffrage Association is founded.
    The National Woman Suffrage Association is founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
  • Wyoming allows women to vote.

    Wyoming allows women to vote.
    Wyoming territory passed a law allowing women to vote.
  • "Illegal" voting.

    "Illegal" voting.
    Susan B. Anthony and some others attempted to vote. Some, including Anthony, were arrested.
  • "Anthony Amendment"

    "Anthony Amendment"
    The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced into the United States Congress.
  • National Association of Colored Women is founded.

    National Association of Colored Women is founded.
    The National Association of Colored Women is founded. It combined more than 100 black women's clubs. Some of the members of the National Association of Colored Women were Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, and Anna Julia Cooper.
  • Utah and Idaho suffrage laws.

    Utah and Idaho suffrage laws.
    Utah and Idaho pass woman suffrage laws (laws that created equal rights for women, such as equal wages, equal working conditions, and giving women the right to vote).
  • WTUL is established.

    WTUL is established.
    The National Women's Trade Union League is established to work for better wages and better working conditions for women.
  • Women's rights parade.

    Women's rights parade.
    Suffragist Alice Paul organizes a 8,000 parade for women's suffrage throughout Washington D.C.
  • 19th Amendment.

    19th Amendment.
    The 19th Amendment is ratified, giving women the right to vote.
  • Women march for equal rights.

    Women march for equal rights.
    Women march up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote and equal wages/working conditions.
  • Equal rights ammendment.

    Equal rights ammendment.
    Equal Rights Amendment is introduced into the United States Congress.