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Stanton, Anthony, and Stone all wrote to friends to ask them to send petitions for women's suffrage to congress. -
The Universal Suffrage Petition was one of the first national drives to focus on women’s voting rights and was signed by some of the most prominent women rights advocates at the time: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
The petition asks for an amendment to the Constitution that shall prohibit the several states from disfranchising any of their citizens on the grounds of sex. -
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The citizens from Macon, Georgia, sent in a petition to Congress protesting the votes for the Women Suffrage Amendment. The petition sent in claims that the proposed women suffrage amendment is dangerous and could end up being hurtful to the best interests of the Country especially within the Southern states, with that, the result of the legislation proposed would be to destroy states' rights, along with white entitlement. -
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The federal woman suffrage amendment passes in the House of Representatives and the Senate. -
The 19th Amendment passed and gave women the right to vote -
Tennessee was the 36th out of the existing 48 states at the time to ratify the 19th amendment, allowing women the right to vote. -
The Equal Rights Amendment was introduced to Congress for the first time, introduced by Congressman Daniel Anthony. This amendment failed, as it did over 1,100 more attempts.
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate -
Although not passed by Congress, this bill, introduced by Representative Winifred Stanley, was the first to propose that employers be required to pay women equal pay for equal work. This principle was later used to enact the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
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The equal pay act of 1963 was passed and promised equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin, or sex of the worker. -
President Nixon signed the Education Amendments of 1972 that included Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in academic activities based on sex. -
This file consists of the civil cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Wade. This plaintiff was seeking to obtain an abortion in Dallas, Texas. -
Sandra Day O'Connor being sworn in aa the first woman Supreme Court Justice by Chief Justice Warren Burger; -
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 50 years of precedent, overruling Roe v. Wade.