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Woman Suffrage Movement

By Harvick

  • 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention - London

    1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention - London
    Abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were not allowed for full participation, This led them to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented the Declaration of Sentiments as a foundational document in the American woman's suffrage movement, and she also promoted the right for women to vote.

  • Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman" Speech

    Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman" Speech
    Sojourner Truth delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech in the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.

  • The Civil War

    The Civil War
    The Civil War paused the women suffrage movent as all men and women spent most of their effeots to the war.

  • Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention

    Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention
    The first conversion since the beginning of the Civil War, held in New York City. The beginning of the American Equal Rights Association.

  • The 14th Amendment

    The 14th Amendment
    The 14th Amendment gave black American the right to become citizen, but only for men, ignoring the women suffrage movement.

  • National Woman Suffrage Association

    National Woman Suffrage Association
    Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association; it allows only female membership and advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues. Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association, which supports the Fifteenth Amendment and invites men to participate.

  • The 15th Amendment Ratified

    The 15th Amendment Ratified
    The 15th Amendent gave the right to vote to the people in the United States in different race and color, but women still did not share the same right.

  • National and American Associations Formed

    National and American Associations Formed
    The organization helped to pass woman suffrage legislation in the United States, promoting women's right to vote.

  • 19th Amendent Rafitied

    19th Amendent Rafitied
    The 19th Amendent gave women the right to vote after the efforts of Woman's Suffrage Woment by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over 70 years. "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."