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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the world Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. Later they started a women's Convention in the us.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments".
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The issue of women's property rights is presented to the Vermont Senate by Clara Howard Nichols. This is a major issue for the Suffragists. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help support womens right.
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During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”
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Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly, and others form the Women's Trade Union League of New York, an organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated to unionization for working women and to woman suffrage.
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Mabel Vernon and Sara Bard Field are involved in a transcontinental tour which gathers over a half-million signatures on petitions to Congress. 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.
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New York women gain suffrage.
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The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment and the ratification process begins.
