Women's right to vote

By zgrater12345

  • The 14th amendemtn

    The 14th Amendment guarantees civil rights to all citizens but gives the vote to men only.

  • National Woman Suffrage Association

    In 1869, this faction formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association and began to fight for a universal-suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution.

  • Voting in Utah

    Federal legislation to end polygamy in Utah contains a measure to disenfranchise women, who had won the vote there in 1870. They wouldn’t get it back until 1895.

  • Fight with Wyoming

    Congress threatens to withhold statehood from Wyoming because of woman suffrage. Wyoming threatens to remain a territory rather than give up women’s votes. Congress backs down, and Western states take the lead in giving women full voting rights.

  • First women to vote

    Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

  • women start to vote

    Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years.

  • 19th amendment was ratified

  • National Women's Party

    In 1923, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment has never been ratified.