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The first Women's Rights Convention is held in New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" outlining the women's activism agenda for decades to come.
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The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women. "All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband."
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Sojourner Truth, who was freed from slavery in 1827, delivers her infamous "Ain't I A Woman" speech at a Women's Rights Convention in Ohio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no demonstrating race issues within sexism
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Efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt as women put their energies toward the war effort.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association, dedicated to the goal of suffrage for women of any gender or race
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In New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election.
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The American Equal Rights Association is ruined by disagreements on whether or not to support the proposed Fifteenth Amendment which would give voting rights to African American males while avoiding the women's suffrage entirely. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), to achieve the vote through a Constitutional amendment as well as work for other woman’s rights issues.
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Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant in the election, is arrested and brought to trial in New York. 15 other women are arrested for illegally voting. Abigail Scott Duniway convinces Oregon lawmakers grant a law stating a married woman’s rights including starting and running her own business, having control over the money she earns, and the right to protect her property if her husband leaves.
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A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. It would pass 41 years later.
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The first vote on woman suffrage is taken, the Senate is defeated 34 votes to 16
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The Progressive Era begins. Women from all classes and backgrounds enter public life. Women's roles expand, resulting in an increasing politically aware women. The issue of woman suffrage becomes part of mainstream politics.
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New York women gain suffrage.
Arkansas women are allowed to vote in primary elections.
Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, is formally seated in the U.S. House of Representatives. -
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A Women's Suffrage Amendment passes congress forty-one years after its proposal - it is worded exactly the same as the 1878 Amendment.
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American Women gain full voting rights.
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With help from the United States Congress
