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History of American Suffrage

  • The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London

    The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London
    . This snub leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America.
  • First Womans Rights convention in Seneca Falls

    First Womans Rights convention in Seneca Falls
    This was when three hundred people attended a meeting to set the agenda for decades of womans activism. Some people that attended where Amelia Bloomer, Charolette Woodward and Fredrick Douglas.
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War
    Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.
  • The eleventh National Womans Rights Convention

    The eleventh National Womans Rights Convention
    This was the first convention since the beggining of the Civil War and was held in New York. This was when Lucretia Mott presides between suffragists and the American Anti-Slavery association. Wich was later callled American equal rights Association
  • The 14th amendment

    The 14th amendment
    • The 14th amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote
  • Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association

    Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association
    it allows only female membership and advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues.
  • Woman in The Washington territory are granted full voting rights

    Woman in The Washington territory are granted full voting rights
    Woman in washington were able to vote for many of the impprtant things that they weren't able to vote for before. Like for new laws, new presidents ect.
  • The National and American associations

    The National and American associations
    The National and American associations merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton becomes the new organization's first president.
  • Suffragist Alice Paul

    Suffragist Alice Paul
    She becomes the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American association.