Women

Woman Suffrage Movement

By pedromcpreysler

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    About 300 people attend the first womens rights convention in Senneca Falls, New York. Aong they're attendees are Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, and Frederick Douglas.Lucretia Motts husband James had presided. Stanton authors the Declaration od Sentiments, which sets the agenda for decades of womens active part. A meeting in Rochester later follows on.

  • Enfranchisement

    Enfranchisement
    Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Clarina Nichols, and others travel to Kansas to agitate for women's suffrage. After months of campaigning, suffragists are defeated on the fall ballot.At the American Equal Rights Association annual meeting, opinions divide sharply on supporting the enfranchisement of black men before women. Importance : Even though women are of white skin, they are still treated as less important than black people.

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    The 14th amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word “male” officially excluding women’s suffrage. Anthony and Stanton are outraged. Arguments lead to a split in the movement. Importance : Althought women were a great apart of the anti-slavery movement, only black men were allowed to vote. It showed that women were inferior to men.

  • Ratification of the 15th Amendment

    Ratification of the 15th Amendment
    The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned awayImportance: The law states that women are allowed to vote, women are still excluded from voting.

  • Susan B.Anthony Takes Action

    Susan B.Anthony Takes Action
    Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense.”Importance: Anthony voted and became arrested, despite the law stating that women have the right to vote.

  • Susan B. Anthony Arrested

    Susan B. Anthony Arrested
    Susan B. Anthony was arrested in Rochester N.Y for illegal voting. She had refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."

  • Full Voting Rights to Washington

    Full Voting Rights to Washington
    Women in Washington territory have been granted full voting rights. Suffragists travel to Liverpool, where they soon form a council of women.

  • Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    Alice Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Washington. She then becomes the leader of the CU, a militant branch of the National American association.

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Wilson promises that the Democratic Party Platform will endorse suffrage. Meanwhile, the CU transforms itself into the National Woman's Party.

  • Grant Womans's Suffrage

    Grant Womans's Suffrage
    President Wilson issues a statement that supports the federal amendment to grant womans suffrage. Wilson also addresses the Senate in aupport of the 19th amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of senate votes.