American Suffrage Timeline

By hill_cj

  • Oberlin College becomes the first co-educational college in America

    Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown were some of the first female graduates.

  • The World Anti-Slavery Convention

    London rejects the credentials of American delegate Lucretia Mott and other female American delegates. Becuase of this Elizabeth Cady Stanton takes up the fight for womens rights.

  • Lowell Female Labor Reform Association Founded

    Focused on the issue of 10 hour work days

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    The first women's rights convention that discussed the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman. It led the way to future women's rights convention, eventually leading to the annual National Women's Rights Convention.

  • "Ain't I A Woman" Speech

    Sojourner Truth gives a speech at the Women's Convention. It is significant because it was rewritten and used during the American Civil War.

  • First Reliable Rubber Condom

    Rubber condoms benefitted women because it gave them a method of reliable birth control. Some women didn't like it though because they thought that women should be in control of birth control.

  • American Civil War Starts

    The war halts the suffrage movement as the north and the south split. It also creates a training ground for the suffragettes.

  • Formation of the American Equal Rights Association

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the organisation for white and black women and men dedicated to the goal of universal suffrage.

  • The 14th Amendment is ratified

    The 14th Amendment is ratified and it is the first time that citizens and voters and classified as 'male'

  • Wyoming give women the vote

    Wyoming is the first state to give women the vote

  • Susan B. Anthony is arrested

    Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential election.

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed afted the NWSA and the AWSA decide to reunite.

  • Women get the vote in Colorado

    The women get the vote after winning a referendum.

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes "The Woman's Bible"

    The book is so controversial that Elizabeth Cady Stanton is forced to distance herself from the NAWSA. After this she is no longer allowed to sit on the stage at NAWSA conventions.

  • Formation of the National Association of Colored Women

    Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and former slave Harriet Tubman for the organisation in Washington D.C

  • Carrie Chapman Catt becomes president of NAWSA

    President after Susan B. Anthony

  • Formation of the Women's Trade Union League of New York

    Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly

  • The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is formed

    Mrs. Arthur Dodge, Cardinal Gibbons, many other influential and wealthy men and women.

  • Women get the vote in New York

    Women get the vote in the state of New York

  • 19th Amendment Passed