Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By julia-russom

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born on November 12th in Johnstown, NY

  • Elizabeth marries abolitionist, Henry B. Stanton

  • Elizabeth and others organize Seneca Falls Convention regarding Women's Rights

    Stanton with Lucrettia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock and Jane Hunt organize the first women's rights convention center at Seneca FAlls Convention Center. She co-authored the Declaration of Sentiments.

  • Stanton, Anthony and others found the Women's New York State Temprance Society

  • Stanton, Anthony and others petition the Congress for universal suffrage

  • Stanton and Anthony begin publishing the ''Revolution"

  • Stanton and Anthony found the National Women Suffrage Association

    This association would agitate for a sixteenth amendment that would outlaw disfranchisement on account of sex.

  • 15th amendment ratified

    15th amendment ratified disfranchisement "on account to race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

  • Anthony arrested

    Arrested for illegal voting in national election

  • Supreme Court declaring that female citizens were not legally entitled to vote

  • 16th amendement introduced to congress

  • 16th amendment defeated in United State congress

  • Stanton and Anthony found International Council of Women

  • Stanton elected for President of National American Women Suffrage Association

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies

  • 19th amendment ratified