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Remember the Ladies
Abagail Adams wife if John Adams who helped construct the constitution. She wanted women to be deliberatly included in the constitution. -
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Women's Rights Movement
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Sarah Girmke writes in the equality of the sexes and the condition of women in 1838
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton completes the Dectlaration of Sentiments
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Sojourner Truth delivers a speach "Ain't I A Woman"
Reenactment of Truth's speachSojourner Truth was a Black slave. She delivered her speach to white activists somen. her argument is very compelling. She addresses that the idea of gender is only a social construct since she was a woman and she could do everything a man did as well as other convinceing claims. -
The 14th Amendment Radified to the Constitution
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws -
The 15th Amendment is radified to the Constitution
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude-- Section 2.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote
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Victoria Woodhull runs for president
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Susan B. Anthony delivers a speach protesting her arrest.
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19th Amendment added to the Constitution
The 19th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
