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World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
The women's suffrage movement is sparked when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are denied access to the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. This prompts them to hold a Women's Convention in the US (nwhm.org). -
Seneca Falls Convention
In July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY, and launched the woman suffrage movement (archives.gov). -
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Timeline of the Women's Suffrage Movement
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Constitution of California Issues Property Rights to Women
California's first constitution is established and includes language that extends property rights to women: "All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, would remain her separate property" (Schuele, Donna C. (2003), "'None Could Deny the Eloquence of This Lady.' Women, Law, and Government in California, 1850-1890", in Burns, John F; Orsi, Richard J, Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government) -
First National Women's Rights Convention
The first National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts. Women speakers, such as Lucy Stone and Abby Price, called for giving women the right to own property and to vote as well as for access to equal work opportunities.
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Second National Women's Rights Convention
Worcester, Massachusetts is the site of the second National Women's Rights Convention. Participants included: Horace Mann, New York Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers. At a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech "Ain't I a woman?" (The National Women's History Museum) A photo of Lucretia Mott is attached, as she was a leader of the meeting. -
First Issue of The Revolution is published
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”
In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election.
Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in Congress. (National Women's History Museum) -
Women's Suffrage Parade
Woman Suffrage is supported for the first time at the national level by a major political party -- Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party.
Twenty thousand suffrage supporters join the famous Women's Suffrage Parade in NYC.
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Women's Suffrage Amendment is voted on
Exact date is not known, only year.
Representative Rankin begins the debate on a suffrage amendment in the House of Representatives. The amendment passes, but fails to win the required two thirds majority in the Senate.
Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma adopt woman suffrage.
President Woodrow Wilson states his support for a federal woman suffrage amendment. President Wilson addresses the Senate about adopting woman suffrage a the end of World War I.
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American Women Win Full Voting Rights
Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women full voting rights. Image retrieved from the National Archives and Records Administration: (Record Group 11) Amendments to the Constitution/ General Records of the U.S. Government.
