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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton took things into their own hands and gathered the hands of 68 women and 32 men to put together the first Seneca Falls Convention in New York. There they developed a list of their outrages and demands. 12 resolutions were brought up so that women could gain rights, the 9th being that women should have the right to vote. This ruffled many feathers but regardless this was just the beginning of the long hard fight. -
Women in Wyoming were granted the right to vote, granted it was a political pull to attract more people to move to Wyoming for growth. This also came with random expectations like expecting the women to vote for the very party that gave them the power to vote in the first place. -
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the NWSA to fight harder in finding a more constitutional based way to gain voting rights -
The 15th amendment is passed, giving the right to former African-American male slaves the right to vote and leaving women out of the equation. Land owners or not. -
Women of the age of 21 and up were given the right to vote in local and territorial elections but still could not run for or hold public office. However, there was a battle brewing between polygamist and anti polygamists' and many anti polygamy bills were proposed and put into place to revoke women's suffrage. Unfortunately they did end up loosing the right to vote in 1887. Utah women were give back the right to vote when congress accepted Utah's constitution and statehood in 1896 -
Brave as can be, Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee to say that women should have the right to vote based off of the 14th and 15th amendment. Again women are turned down the right. -
With the help of some men Susan B. Anthony was registered to vote and cast her ballot on election day. Two weeks after voting day she was arrested for voting illegally. She was indicted, tried, convicted, and fined $100 for doing so. The three men that assisted her were also interviewed for assisting her. She is not allowed to testify for herself and refused to pay the fine -
The Supreme Court declares that just because one may have citizenship does not give women the right to vote. That is left to the individual states to decide -
Still resilient as ever on July 4th 1876 at the Centennial Celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony marched herself all the way to the platform and thrust the Declaration of Rights for the Women of the United States into the hands of Vice President Thomas W Ferry. Susan B. Anthony and others scattered the documents about and then read the document outside for all to hear -
Sadly falling ill with Pnemonia Lucretia passed away at the age of 87. Even though she did not get to see the day where women could vote, we can thank her everyday for that right now as she paved the way for the fight and the right. -
George Hoar, Senate for Massachusetts state legislature, was a large voice for favor of the woman's suffrage movement. He joined the senate minority who were in support of the movement and with the aid of Henry Blair, together they proposed that they form a committee to work on the issue. Which came to fruition January 9, 1822. a few months after a constitutional amendment was ready for talk. however it would be another 5 years before it was even voted on, where it was would be turned down -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B Anthony; Matilda Joslyn Gage; Ida Husted Harper together wrote and published the history of Woman's Suffrage to document the trials and tribulations Women have fought through to gain rights -
Founded by Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Sewell, and Frances Willard. They held their first convention March 25- April 1 1888 in Washington DC and 9 countries attended via 49 delegates. This council focused on other things besides woman's suffrage to mind both sides of political parties. International meetings are held every 5 years and national meetings every 3 years. -
the NAWSA was formed after the merging of the two woman's groups which had originally split due to the NWSA wanting enfranchisement at a federal level and the AWSA was okay with state by state enfranchisement. Together they aimed for both goals and became a super power until women had the right to vote. Eventually when women gained the right to vote they became the League of Women Voters. -
27 years ahead of the 19th amendment Colorado granted it's women the right to vote -
