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Woman Suffrage: The Journey (EM)

  • Seneca Falls, New York

    Seneca Falls, New York

    Declaration of Sentiments was signed. Seneca Falls is the first location for the Women's Rights Convention.
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    Civil War

    Woman Suffrage is halted in order for women to help with the war.
  • Emancipation

    Emancipation

    One of the things that pulled the focus from the woman suffrage campaign and yet called it to attention
  • NWSA / AWSA and Wyoming

    NWSA / AWSA and Wyoming

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association based in New York.
    Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe form the American Woman Suffrage Association in Boston. Wyoming first state to usher in woman suffrage
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment

    The fifteenth amendment gave black men the right to vote. This took attention away from the women suffrage campaign.

    The Woman's Journal Debut
  • First vote

    First vote

    Woman suffrage is voted on in the Senate and was defeated
  • NAWSA

    NAWSA

    The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association merge. Pledge to state-by-state campaigns for suffrage
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    The progressive era

    The progressive era helped expand the roles of women and increasing the publicity of woman suffrage campaign
  • Colorado

    Colorado

    woman's suffrage is adopted by Colorado.
  • UTAH and IDAHO

    UTAH and IDAHO

    Utah joins the Union, granting women full suffrage
    Idaho adopts woman suffrage
  • Washington Parade

    Washington Parade

    The day before President Wilson's inauguration, suffragists parade in Washington, D.C organized by Alice Paul.
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    World War I

    World War I was both a distraction to the Suffrage because women had to help with the war effort and also this helped with getting the 19th amendment passed and ratified
  • Defeat

    Defeat

    Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts reject women suffrage
  • President Wilson

    President Wilson

    President Wilson addresses the Senate, arguing for woman suffrage at the end of the war.
  • 19th Amendment Pass

    19th Amendment Pass

    Nineteenth Amendment passed with just two votes to spare. Drafted by Susan B Anthony.
  • The 19th Ammendment

    The 19th Ammendment

    The nineteenth amendment is ratified in the U.S. Constitution. Declaring that citizen's right to vote will not be denied by any state on account of sex.