women's rights

By kingmoam

  • Women's Convention

    Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. This prompts them to hold a Women's Convention in the US.

  • state constitution

    The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women.

  • House Judiciary Committee

    Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to vote under the fourteenth amendment.

  • Woman Suffrage Amendment

    A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. When the 19th Amendment passes forty-one years later, it is worded exactly the same as this 1878 Amendment

  • first vote

    The first vote on woman suffrage is taken in the Senate and is defeated.

  • Colorado

    Colorado adopts woman suffrage

  • New York State Constitutional Convention

    600,000 signatures are presented to the New York State Constitutional Convention in a failed effort to bring a woman suffrage amendment to the voters

  • major political party

    Woman Suffrage is supported for the first time at the national level by a major political party -- Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party

  • march in a NYC suffrage parade

    Forty thousand march in a NYC suffrage parade. Many women are dressed in white and carry placards with the names of the states they represent.

  • the Nineteenth Amendment.

    Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.