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All White Males
By 1820, most of the 13 states extended the right to vote to all white males, not just land owners, as it had been in the past. Rhode Island, Virginia, and Louisiana did not until around 1840. Kentucky became the first of the new western states to allow all white males to vote, followed by Tennessee and Ohio. -
Start of the Women's Rights Campaign
The women's suffrage campaign began in the 1820s. Reform groups were protesting all over the United States, women involved in many. -
The Seneca Falls Convention
A group of activists-mostly women, but did include men- gathered in New York to discuss women's voting rights. The convention was hosted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. -
Susan B Anthony Votes
In 1872, Susan B Anthony attempted to vote in an election, and was immediately arrested and fined. She refused to pay. -
Wyoming
Wyoming became a state in 1890, and was the first state to allow women to vote. They stated they would not join the states unless their women could vote too.1 -
White Women are able to vote
White women got the right to vote in 1920, 72 years after the Seneca Falls Convention. -
23rd Amendment
This amendment gives citizens of Washington, D.C. the right to vote
for U.S. president. But to this day, the district’s residents—most of whom are African American—still do not have voting representation in Congress. -
Lyndon B Johnson Signs the Voting Act
In 1965, President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Act, aimed to "overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
