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Anti-Slavery Convention
The world Anti-Slavery Cpnvention is held in London. Abolitionists Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. This snub leads them to decide to hold a womens right convention when they return to America. -
Convention of Seneca Falls
Three hundred people show up at Seneca Falls,New York for the first Womens Rghts Convention. Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, & Federick Douglas & Lucretia Mott's husbadn James, all attended. A much bigger meeting follows in Rochester. -
1861-1865
And even willing to put aside their hardwork , they still got treated as just property. Womens cuffrage movement came to a almost complete stop when they put aside their work to pitch in for the war effort. -
14th Amendment
In the 14th amendment the word 'male' is specified, excluding women's suffrage. The 14th amendment gives the former slaves the right to vote/ Anthony & Stanton are outraged, creating arguements that lead to a split in the movement. -
Rochester, N.Y
Susan.B.Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police because she was 'traveling under protest at the goverments expense" . she is also arrested in Rochester,N.Y . For illegal voting. -
1870
The Fifteenth Admendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned away. -
A new start.
The national and American associations merge to form the Nsational American Women Suffrage Association.Stanton because the new organizations first president :D -
A change.
Anthony retires as the president of the National American and to the suprise of many, reccomends Carrie Chapman Catt as her succesor; Catt is elected. -
womens Parade
Becoming leader of the Congressional Union came with all the hard effort put in. in 1913 Suffaragist Alice Paul organized a parade through Washington of 8,000 women! -
The 19th Amendment
Until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women , the 19th admedment was the climax of The womens suffrage movement, it was fought both at state and national level to get the vote. After years of women putting in the idea, that it was finally ratified.
