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Women Suffrage

By mwizzy15

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    Three Hundred people attend the first womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Among the attendees are amelia Bloomer, Woodward, And Frederick Douglas. Lucretia Motts husband James presides. Stanton auhors the Declaration of Sentinmets, Which sets the agenda for decadesof womens activism. a larger meeting fallows in Rochester

  • Soujorner Truth Delivers A speech

    Sojourner Truth delivers her "Aint I a Women

  • Lucy Stone To kansas

    Lucy Stone To kansas
    Lucy Stone,Henry Blackwell,Clarina Nichols, Amd others travel to kansas to agitate for womens suffrage. Aftter months of compaigning, Suffragists are defeated on the fall ballot.

  • Slaves Can Vote

    Slaves Can Vote
    The 14th Amendment passes granted former slaves the right to vote. The amendment specifies the word male oficcially excluding womens suffrage. Anthony and stanton are outraged. Arguements lead to a split in the movement.

  • the 15th Amendment is ratified

    the 15th Amendment is ratified
    The fifteenth Amendment is ratified.Although its 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 is arrested in rochester n.y for illegal voting

    Susan B.Anthony is arrested in rochester n.y for illegal voting
    Susan B.Anthony is arrested in rochester n.y for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police staion because she was "traveling under protest at the goverments expense."