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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, and other supporters at the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls acquire the Declaration of Sentiments, which requests for equality of women and their right to vote.
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Anthony and more than a dozen women get arrested in Rochester, NY for illegally voting in the presidential election.
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The two sides of the women's voting right movement reunite. They form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). With Stanton as their president, they focus on state by state fights for voting rights,
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns leave NAWSA and create the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage to put forward federal action. Paul leads a protest that ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 women in Washington D.C.
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Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman appointed to Congress. Paul and others hold peaceful protests outside the White House to convince Wilson to join their cause. Many protestors are arrested and jailed. Paul and her supporters take hunger strikes to bring attention to their purpose.
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Rankin opens debate in the House of Representatives on a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. The house votes in favor, but the amendment does not win a majority in the Senate. President Wilson, in a speech to congress, changes his position to support women's suffrage.
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On May 21, 1919, the House passes what would be the 19th amendment. The Senate passes suit on June 4 by a slim margin (barely meeting the requirement) and it goes to the states to be approved. Ratification required 36 of the states at the time. Eleven states voted to ratify by late July 1919. Georgia becomes the first state to vote against ratification. By the end of the year, Alabama became the second state to vote against ratification.14 more states were required to meet their target
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The Tennessee state legislature needs to seal the fate of the women's suffrage movement and they are getting pressured. The Tennessee Senate votes to ratify but the vote is tied in the house until Harry Burns, one legislature, changes his vote after receiving a letter from his mother. Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify. On August 26, U.S. Secretary Bainbridge Colby certifies the ratification of the 19th Amendment. In November, more than 8 million women vote in the presidential election.
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During the start of the decade, 5 more states ratify, but South Carolina rejects.
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Deleware's vote stuns the suffrage movement. Suddenly, the fate of women's suffrage is in doubt. Most of the remaining states have a high anti-suffrage movement. 3 more states decline the amendment, this leaves North Carolina and Tennessee left to vote.