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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
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.
