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-DeclarationEqual treatment for men and women was put into play at the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. This set the agenda for women's rights!
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-The ConventionThe first national meeting took place in Worcester, Massachusetts. Yearly meetings were held for the next ten years with the excpetion of 1857
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-Women's SuffrageThis group focused on women's voting rights for individaul states.
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-Women's SuffragePassed by Wyoming, the first suffrage law was put into play. The next year, women began serving on juries.
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-NAWSAThe National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association form to make the National American Women Suffrage Association. Their main goal is to obtain voting rights.
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Trade UnionEstablished to improve women's work wages and conditions.
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Birth Control Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
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-The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women.
-The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
