Women's suffrage timeline

By jayebowler
  • Seneca Falls Convention is held and Declaration of Sentiments is published

    Seneca Falls Convention is held and Declaration of Sentiments is published

    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.
  • Lucy Stone and Harry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name

    Lucy Stone and Harry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name

  • 14th Amendment is ratified declaring citizens rights

    14th Amendment is ratified declaring citizens rights

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
  • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton formed the National Women's Suffrage Association

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton formed the National Women's Suffrage Association

  • Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded

    Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded

  • Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting for Ulysses Grant

    Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting for Ulysses Grant

    She voted for the incumbent, Republican Ulysses S. Grant. At that time, women were not allowed to vote. This brought national attention to the suffrage movement
  • Colorado becomes the first state to allow the women the right to vote

    Colorado becomes the first state to allow the women the right to vote

    It ratified a proposed constitutional amendment, it prohibits discrimination against women voting.
  • About 5,000 paraded for women's suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., with about have a million onlookers

    About 5,000 paraded for women's suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., with about have a million onlookers

    The woman suffrage parade of 1913, officially the Woman Suffrage Procession, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C.
  • The Great War (World War I) intervenes to slow down the suffrage campaign as some decide to shelve their suffrage activism in favor of "war work"

    The Great War (World War I) intervenes to slow down the suffrage campaign as some decide to shelve their suffrage activism in favor of "war work"

    Women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war.
  • Alice Paul and other suffragettes arrested outside the White House for "obstructing traffic" and later imprisoned

    Alice Paul and other suffragettes arrested outside the White House for "obstructing traffic" and later imprisoned

    As they picketed the White House. The protesters sought to pressure President Woodrow Wilson into supporting the proposed “Anthony amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote in all election contests.
  • President Wilson annouces that congress should consider the women's suffrage amendment as a "war measure"

    President Wilson annouces that congress should consider the women's suffrage amendment as a "war measure"

    resident Woodrow Wilson gives a speech before Congress in support of guaranteeing women the right to vote.
  • the 19th amendment to the Constitution, granting women's suffrage, is ratified

    the 19th amendment to the Constitution, granting women's suffrage, is ratified

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.