A History of the American Suffragist Movement

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    A history of the Amreican suffragist movement

  • the world anti-slavery convention

    the world anti-slavery convention
    Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady, both well-known Quaker preacher and independent thinker. They were invaluable in helping to organize the woman’s rights movement.
  • Ain't I a woman?

    Ain't I a woman?
    Speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio.The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States.
  • The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention

    The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention
    Beginning of the civil war in New York City. Lucretia Mott was the presides over a merger between suffragists and the American Anti-Slavery Association, it's called the American Equal Right Association.
  • Agitate for women's sufftage

    Agitate for women's sufftage
    After months of campaigning, suffragists are defeats on the fall ballot.
  • The 14th Amendment

    The 14th Amendment
    The slaves alowed to vote by the right of the 14th amendment, but only for the male.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment
    After the 5th Amendment is changed, the women can vote but they all turned away.
  • Full voting rights

    Full voting rights
    All the women in Washington are granted ful voting rights, and form the International Council of women, also working together to sloving the probems between two groups.
  • Congressional Union

    Congressional Union
    Suffragist ALice Paul organizes 8000 women for a parade through Washingtion, and she also becomes the leader of the Union.
  • President Wilson supporting the woman's suffrage

    President Wilson supporting the woman's suffrage
    President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.
  • Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August

    Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August
    Three quarters of state legislatures ratify the 19th amendment and American women win full voting rights.