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2 woman sufferage groups came together to form the National American Woman Sufferage Association, Elizebeth Cady Stanton is elected as its first president.
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African American woman Ida B. Wells starts nation-wide anti-lynching campaign after the murder of three black people in Tennessee
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Susan B. Anthony becomes second president of the NAWSA, she is president until 1900, becuase they were both deeply frustrated in all the sufferage towards women. Susan and Elizabeth composed, "Words can not describe the indignation, the humiliation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement."
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Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and former slave Harriet Tubman meet in Washington, D.C. to form the National Association of Colored Women.
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Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado are the only four states that allow woman to vote.
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from 1896 until now, women have not been able to vote in a single state.
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive(also known as the Bull Moose or Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to accept womans sufferage.
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Seven more western states have approved full sufferage for woman.
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Jeannette Rankin is the first American woman elected to represent her state (Montana) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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During the war that was going on, membership in the NAWSA reached about 2 miillion, Carrie Chapman Catt, the current president of the NAWSA, argued that the nation needed to recognize that woman should be able to vote.
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Women in the NAWSA tried to help the war effort by selling warbonds andorganizing benefits. President Wilson asks the Senate to pass a amendment for women's sufferage. He callsit "vital to the winning of the war".
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the House passed this admendment which gave woman the abiltity of full voting rights.
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The 19th Admendment is approved by the states.
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The National Woman's Party first creats the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination based on a person's gender. It has not been ratified before.
