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Seneca Falls Convention Research Seneca Falls was the first convention for women's rights in the United States. 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Sentiments, calling for equal rights for women and men, along with voting rights for women.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. Their goal was to amend the Constitution and nationalize women's suffrage.
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Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, along with others, form the AWSA. This group wanted to promote women's suffrage through amending state constitutions
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The National American Woman Suffrage Association is born. Their goal was to obtain voting rights for women by fighting for it state by state.
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Colorado is the first state granted the right of women to vote.
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union, whose goal is to pass a federal amendment that guarantees the right of women to vote.
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The federal women's suffrage amendment, orginally written by Susan B. Anthony 40 years earlier, is passed by both houses of Congress, beginning the long process of the states ratifiying it.
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Women are granted the right to vote on a national level.
