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The first Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY
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Women's rights convention held in April in Salem, Ohio. First national women's rights convention held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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The last womens rights convention held, in 1861, in Albany, New York
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activities to help the war effort.
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Fourteenth amendment passes Congress, defining citizens as "male" this is the first use of the word male in the Constitution. Kansas campaign for black and woman suffrage and they both lose.
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Fifteenth Amendment ratified. The Grimke sisters, now quite aged, and 42 other women attempt to vote in Massachusetts, their ballots are casted and ignored. also Utah grants woman suffrage.
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Susan B. Anthony and her supporters are arrested for voting. Both Anthony's sisters and 11 other women held for $500 bail.susan B. Anthony herself is held for $1000 bail.
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On July 4, in Philadelphia Susan B. Anthony reads The Declaration for the Rights of Women from a podium in front of the Liberty Bell.
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Woman suffrage amendment first introduced into the US Congress.
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The House and Senate appoint committees on woman suffrage, both report favorably
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Belva Lockwood runs for president. The US House of Representatives debates woman suffrage.