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The World Anti-Slavery Conventon was held in London. Abolitionists Lucreatia Mott and Elizabeth Stantan attended, but where forbiden to aprticipate because of their sex. This insult leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to america.
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Three hundred people attend the fist women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Among the attendees are Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, and Frederick Douglas. Lucretia Mott's Husband James presides Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments.
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Suffrage efforst nearly come to a complete halt has women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.
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The 14th amendment passed granting former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word "male" officially excluding women's suffrage. Anthony and Stanton are outraged. Arguments lead to a split in the movement.
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Stanton and Anthony for the National Woman Suffrage Association; it allows only female membership and adocates for woman suffrage above all the other issues. Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association, which supports the FifteenthAmendment and invites men to participate.
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The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendments are turned away.
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Susan Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."
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The National and American associations merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton becomes the new organization's first president.
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President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.
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Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee. three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American women win full voting rights.
