Women's Civil Rights 1776-1920

By ramaawad
  • No Women Rights

    No Women Rights

  • First National Female antislavery society

    First National Female antislavery society

    The convention meets in NYC
  • First Woman's Property Act

    First Woman's Property Act

    Mississippi passed the first married women's property act
  • First Women's Rights Convention

    First Women's Rights Convention

    Was held in the US
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman

    Leads many slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad
  • Sojourner Truth Delivers Her "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech

    Sojourner Truth Delivers Her "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech

    She delivers it in front of a spellbound audience at a women's rights convention in Ohio
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    Confederate Memorial Societies

    White southern woman creates confederate memorial societies to help preserve the memory of "Lost Cause" this propels many women into the public sphere for the first time
  • The Women's Rights Movement Splits

    The Women's Rights Movement Splits

    It splits into two factions due to a disagreement over the 15th amendments
  • Women suffrage

    Women suffrage

    Women suffrage amendment is introduced to the United States Congress
  • The National Association

    The National Association

    opposed to women suffrage is organized
  • Jeanette Rankin of Monatno

    Jeanette Rankin of Monatno

    becomes the first american women elected to represent her state
  • The Great War

    The Great War

    solved down the suffrage campaign