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Staunton Convention of 1816
This image is expressing suffrage efforts to bring all Women to vote. women's right convention when they return to America. -
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A History of the American suffragist movement
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First Women's right Covention
The long struggle to win women’s suffrage began in 1848. Suffragettes and suffragists who worked for women’s suffrage, including Susan B. Anthony -
The Women's suffrage movement was established in 1848
The Women's suffrage movement was established in 1848.The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848 -
"Ain't I a Women"
Women's rights began in 1851, when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. and a Speech at the women rights convention in Akron, Ohio had started -
Civil War
During the Civil War, (1861-1865) efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort. -
1868 the 14th Admendment passes
The citizenship rights of those who had rebelled against the federal government or who had participated in secession were also in question. One response was the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, proposed on July 28, 1868. -
After the Civil War
In 1869, she founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Association however, a rift developed among women over the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave them to vote to black men. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others refused to endorse the amendment because it did not give women the ballot. -
(1900) Surprises of many
Women got the right to vote on August 18, 1900. Women were being treated as subjects instead of individuals, with no rights back then. Women’s suffrage: women’s struggle for the right to vote. -
1913 Suffragist Alice Paul
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, later known at the National Women’s Party (1916). They borrowed strategies from the radical Women’s Social and Political Union in England -
House of Representatives (1916)
Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson states that the Democratic Party platform will support suffrage.
