Women's Suffrage

By morganbrooke013
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    19th Century

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York. Equal suffrage proposed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton After debate of so radical a notion, it is adopted.

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Fourteenth amendment ratified. Fifteenth amendment passes Congress, giving the vote to black men. Women petition to be included but are turned down. Formation of New England Woman Suffrage Association. In New Jersey, 172 women attempt to vote; their ballots are ignored.

  • Women Arrested for voting

    Women Arrested for voting
    Susan B. Anthony and supporters arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women held for $500 bail. Anthony herself is held for $1000 bail.

  • Equality League of Self Supporting Women

    Equality League of Self Supporting Women
    Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth's daughter, forms the Equality League of Self Supporting Women which becomes the Women's Political Union in 1910. She introduces the English suffragists' tactics of parades, street speakers, and pickets.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Prohibits any United States citiznes from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex