A History of the American Suffragist Movement

By Mhalhaikha

  • Convention Held in London

    The world Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London. Abolitionist Lucretia Mott and Elizabth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. This snub leads them to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America

  • Convetion in Seneca Falls, New york

    3 hundred people attend the first women's rights convetion in Seneca Falls, New York. Among the attendees are Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, Federick Douglass. Lucretia Mott's husband James Presides. Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments, which sets the agenda for decades of women's activism. A larger meeting follows in Rochester.

  • The 14th amendment

    The 14th amendment passses granted former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word "male" officially excluding women's right suffrage. Anthony and stanton are outroged. Arguments lead to a split in the movement.

  • The 15th amendment

    The 15th Amedment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women vote, women who get to the polls to test the amendment are turned way.

  • Susan B. Anthony arrested in Rochester In New York

    Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester New York For illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "travelin under protest at the government's expense."

  • Parade through Washington

    Suffragist Alive Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Wahington. She becomes the leader of the congressional Union, a millant branch of the National American association.

  • Grant Women's sufrrage

    Woodrow Wilson promisesthat the demacrotion party willendorsesuffrage. Mean while , the CU transforms itself into the national women's party. Montana elects suffragists Jeanette Rankin to the House of Reprensentatives.

  • President Wilson Statement

    President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant women's sufrage. President Wilson adresses the senate in support of the 19amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of senate votes.

  • 19amendment

    For a third time, the house to enfranches women.The Senate finally passes. The 19 amendement and suffragists begin their ratification campaign.

  • Women win full voting right

    Despite the political subversation of anti-suffagists, particulary in the Tennessee, three quaters of states legislature ratify the 19th amendment on 26 August. American women win full power.