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The World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. attended abolitionists: Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -barred from participating in the meeting...leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America.
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attend: 300people,- first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. -Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments, ... sets the agenda for decades of women's activism
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Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio.
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1861-1865 - The Civil War -Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.
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Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Clarina Nichols, - travel to Kansas to agitate for women's suffrage. After months .. suffragists are defeated on the fall ballot. -At the American Equal Rights Association- opinions divide sharply on supporting the enfranchisement of black men before women.
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The 14th amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote. -specifies the word “male” officially excluding women’s suffrage. -Arguments lead to a split in the movement.
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Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association -only female members -advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues.- Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association -supports the Fifteenth Amendment - invites men to participate.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. -refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station.... she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."
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Women in the Washington territory - full voting rights. - suffragists travel to Liverpool, to form the International Council of Women. -the leaders of the National and American associations work together -the foundation for a reconciliation between two groups.
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Alice Paul: organizes 8,000 women - to parade through Washington.. - the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), (militant branch of the National American association)
