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Women's Suffrage Movement in the Gilded Age

By cecilian

  • New York's Married Women's Property Rights Act

    Seneca FallsPassed in 1848 in New York before the convening of the Seneca Falls Convention. Discussed by leaders of the women's suffrage movement like Mott; it was far from what they wanted in terms of women's rights.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    Women's Suffrage Timeline"Declaration of Sentiments" presented (written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton), which becomes the agenda for women's rights activism. The convention brings to the forefront issues involving women's rights in the US.

  • American Equal Rights Association created

    Women's History in the USSusan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and Lucy Stone developed this after meeting at the 1866 Anti-Slavery Society meeting; it was proposed as a medium through which blacks and women could pursue universal suffrage.

  • Creation of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)

    Women's History in the USThis was developed by Stanton and Anthony solely for the purpose of aquiring women's suffrage.

  • American Woman Suffrage Association created

    AWSA MemorialThis organization was generally concerned with securing the vote for women, and it became closely associated with the Republican Party.

  • Women Suffrage Amendment proposed to Congress

    Women's Suffrage Timeline Proposed in Congress, the amendment would help develop the 19th Amendement that passed in Congress in 1919.

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association created

    AWSA Memorial Merging of AWSA and NWSA; the organization planned to pursue the ratification of as many suffrage amendments throughout the US that Congress would have to push for a federal amendment.

  • Women's Trade Union League of New York developed

    Women's Suffrage Timeline Dedicated to the unionization of working women and women's suffrage.

  • National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) developed

    Women's Suffrage TimelineHeaded by Mrs. Arthur Dodge, and the organization included clergymen, Southern congressmen, influential women, and others opposed to women's suffrage.

  • Creation of Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage

    Women's History in the US
    Created by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul, Later (in 1915), it would be called the National Women's Party, which focused on the passage of an amendment that would guarantee women the right to vote and getting attention for their efforts.

  • Nineteenth Amendment ratified

    Women's Suffrage Timeline 3/4 of the state legislatures ratify the amendment, which finally grants women full voting rights.