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NAtion Womens Rights
The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place attracting more than 1,000 participants. -
civil war to suffrage
Civil War. Over the objections of Susan B. Anthony, women put aside suffrage activities to help the war effort. -
NAWSA
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association an organization wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
States in order to accept womens suffrage
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote. Few years later Utah and Idaho follow suit in 1896, Washington State in 1910, California in 1911, Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona in 1912, Alaska and Illinois in 1913, Montana and Nevada in 1914, New York in 1917; Michigan,South Dakota, and Oklahoma in 1918. -
WTUL
The National Women's Trade Union League is created to negotiate for improved wages and working conditions for women. -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave all women the right to vote if they were a U.S. citizen. -
Birth Control Clinic
Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in New York City in 1923.