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- it was held in London. Aboltionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended but they were barred from participating in the meeting.This leads to them deciding to to hold a women's rights convention.
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300 people attened this conevetion in Seneca Falls,New York. This meeting lasted several days and a larger meeting followed in Rochester,New York.
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- this gave former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specfied that only males could excluding women's suffrage. Stanton and Anthony were outraged, Led to splits in movement.
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Stanton and Anthony formed this. It only allowed female membership only. However Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association which allowed males to join the cause.
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granted women to vote ,however when they went to the polls they were turned away
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- got arrested for illegal voting in Rochester ,NY
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- they voted on the " Susan B. Anthony" amendment but it did not pass
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- President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. He addressed the Senate of the 19th amendment , but it fails to win the required2/3 majority.
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The third time they had to vote , they passed the 19th amendment , suggragists begin their ratification campaign.
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Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists , particulary in Tennessee , three quarters of state legislatures ratify the 19th amendment. American women win full voting rights.
