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While the Declaration of Indepndance was being made Abigail Adams sends a letter to her husband John Adams telling him to add "remember the ladies."
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Emma Hart Willard opens the Troy Female Seminary in New York,the first school opened for girls.
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Sojourner Truth escapes slavery and becomes a women's rights activst.
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Susan B. Anthony asks for equal pay like men but gets denied sparking the suffrage movement.
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A convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York to talk about women's rights and the Declaration of Sentiments is written .
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Worcester, Massachusetts holds the first National Women's Rights Convention.
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Ida B. Wells becomes both an African American activist for Women’s suffrage and a pioneer in helping women gain equal rights.
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Wyoming gives women the right to vote.
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Sojourner Truth tries to vote in Battle Creek, Michigan but gets turned away.
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While trying to vote, Susan B. Anthony gets arrested along with many other women.
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Susan B. Anthony's is put under trial for illegally voting by the Indiana Supreme Court.
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The Anthony Admendment is created to help women but sparks even more problems because it gets turned down.
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Women's suffrage is included in The Constitution of Wyoming.
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The National American Women Suffrage Association is formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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"In This Our World" is a collection of poetry by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that raised the voices of the oppressed women during the Suffrage period.
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Susan B. Anthony dies from heart disease and pneumonia of both lungs.
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The National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage is formed.
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A novel written by Gertrude Atherton representing the oppression on women during the early 1900’s by their husbands. Julia France is forced into marriage with a nasty and abusive man of reputation.
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Around five thousand women march on Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C to fight for voting rights.
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"Fanny Herself " was written by Edna Ferber in order to empower and encourage women. The book revolves around the main character Fanny, an American-Jew who is attempting to make it big in the male-dominated world of commercial trade and business.
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Because men were fighting in the war, women got the opportunity to take postions they couldn't otherwise.
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Another protest is held but this time in front of the White House.
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The 19th Amendment is created and gives women the right to vote.
