Women Suffrage

  • College Admission

    Oberlin College in Ohio began admitting women and men
  • Equal Rights

    Delegates to the historic Seneca Falls Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton issue a bold declaration calling for equal rights for women
  • 15th Amendment

    African American Men were given the right to vote but not women. Many suffragists were not satisfied with this ratification
  • First Women Allowed to Vote

    Women living in Wyoming Territory became the first American women to win the right to vote
  • Higher Education

    20% of college students were women
  • Protest Vote

    Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters registered to vote, and on Election Day they voted in New York. Two weeks later they were arrested
  • Merge

    The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged. They formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • NACW

    The National Association of Colored Women, one of the largest organizations of African American Women, was founded
  • 18th Amendment

    Congress proposed the eighteenth ammendment which prohibited the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
  • 19th Amendment

    The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified guaranteeing women the right to vote