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A group of women led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a convention at Seneca Falls where they created the Declaration of Sentiments which called for equality for women. In this, it stated that women should have the right to vote. The resolution passed with help from Fredrick Douglass. -
The American Equal Rights Association was created by two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The organization was formed to promote universal suffrage for white and black women and black men. Susan B. Anthony would become a main figure in the woman's suffrage protest. -
A senator named S.C. Pomeroy from Kansas introduced an amendment giving women the right to vote and it is rejected by Congress. -
This Supreme Court case ruled that the 14th Amendment did not give women the right to vote. They claimed being a US citizen did not give women the right to vote and that their voting rights are under state jurisdiction. -
A senator from the state of California named Aaron A. Sargent introduced an amendment to the US senate to give women the right to vote. When the 19th Amendment passed 40 years later, it used a lot of the wording from Sargent's proposed amendment. -
The state of Wyoming became the first state to allow women the right to vote. Wyoming was added to the United States in the year 1890. Before they were added as a state, Wyoming held a constitutional convention where they gave women the right to vote. -
The group called the National American Women Suffrage Association is formed when the two former women's suffrage movements combine. Elizabeth Cady Stanton would become the President. The organization would then focus on voting rights state by state instead of at the federal level. -
The Bull Moose Party was the party of Theodore Roosevelt is the first party to support women's suffrage. -
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two women who were fed up with how little progress the NAWSA organization was making, created their own group called the National Women's Party. They pressed for federal action instead of state action. They led the first women's march in D.C. on Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration Day. -
Many women started to take the streets to peacefully protest women's rights. They called for the White House and Wilson to support women's suffrage. On November 14, 1917, 33 women who were arrested for protesting were beaten by guards at the Occoquan Workhouse. -
President Woodrow Wilson spoke in front of Congress to give his support for the women's suffrage movement. He hoped that Congress would pass an amendment for women's rights. -
On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives Passes what would become the 19th amendment. -
The United States Senate passes what would become the 19th amendment by a narrow 2/3 margin. It would then move on to the states for ratification. -
On August 20, 1920, Tennessee becomes the 36th state to pass the 19th Amendment, officially making it become part of the United States Constitution.