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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams sends a letter to her husband John asking that he remember the women in Declaration of Indepdence -
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Road to Women's Suffrage
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Emma Willard
Emma Hart Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary in New York which was the first school opened for girls -
First women College
Oberlin College is the first co-ed College in the USA -
National Female Anti-Slavery Society
The National Female Anti-Slavery Society convention had their first meeting in New York City in which 81 people attended. -
LFLRA
Female workers in Massachusetts organize the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association and demand a 10-hour workday. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association. -
15th Amendment
The first Amendment to give voting rights to men. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential election. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth appears at a polling booth in Battle Creek, Michigan, and tries to vote, but ends up being turned away. -
Virginia Louisa Minor, Victoria Woodhull, and Myra Bradwell
Several women attempt to use the Fourteenth Amendment in the courts to secure the vote or the right to practice law. They all are unsuccessful. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton founds theNational American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Bull Moose Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is ratified and the women earn the right to vote.
