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The First World Anti-Slavery Convention
The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London. Abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. William Lloyd Garrison refused to sit with other delegates and sat with the women. Stating that he could not take part of a convention that strikes down women. This segregation leads Mott and Stanton deciding to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America. -
Civil War Begins
The Civil War beginning, had the Suffrage movement stopped almost all of its efforts to help with the war. -
Civil War Ends
With the Civil War Ending the women of the Suffrage movement went back to focusing on their own cause. -
The 14th Amendment Passed
The 14th amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word “male” officially excluding women’s suffrage. Anthony and Stanton are outraged.The women really thought it was there time now but their male supporters like Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and Gerrit Smith shot that down. Phillips told them that it was the Negros hour, believing that only one change can happen per generation. -
National Women Suffrage Association and American Womean Suffrage Association are formed
Stanton and Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association; it allows only female membership and advocates for woman suffrage above all other issues. Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association, which supports the Fifteenth Amendment and invites men to participate. -
The Fifteenth Amendment Ratified
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although it's gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned away. -
Susan B. Anthony Arrested
Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense." -
Susan B. Anthony Retires
Anthony retires as the president of the National American and, to the surprise of many, recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor; Catt is elected. -
Senate votes on Susan B. Anthony Amendment
The Senate votes on the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment, but it does not pass. This Amendment was a revision of a past ammendment allowing women to vote. -
President Wilson Steps In
President Wilson issues a statement supporting a federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes. -
19th Amendment Ratified
On August 26 American women won the full right to vote, despite the political hardships they faced. It took 80 years to get the three quarters of state legislatures to ratify the Ninetheenth Amendment