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Woman's suffrage begins
Around the 1820's and 1830's the woman's suffrage movement began. Right now in America pretty much all white men were able to vote regardless of how much money or land they had. -
Seneca Falls Convention
In 1848 a group of Abolitionists made up of men and woman met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women's rights in america. Most delegates at the convention agreed women deserved their own political identities. -
Civil war
In the 1850's the Women's suffrage movement gathered steam but once the civil war began it lost momentum. After the war the 14th and 15th amendment were ratified and black males were now allowed to vote. Women advocates saw this as their chance to go up to the law makers and have them legalize women voting. They even agreed with racist southerners who said white woman votes could be used to neutralize African-American votes. -
National woman's suffrage association
In 1869 a faction formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association and began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Women start to get rights
In some states to the west they are starting to allow women to vote -
White women get the right to vote
In 1920 the 19th amendment was ratified saying that women were allowed to vote. On November 2, 1920 more the 8 million women voting in the vote. -
Fun Fact
In 1923, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment, this amendment has never been ratified.