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Seneca Falls Convention
In 1848, women were given the right to vote and were granted all equal rights. -
Wyoming
The National Women Suffrage Association was found in 1869. -
Illegal Voting
In 1871, Susan B. Anthony and other women tested that question by attempting to vote at least 150 times in ten states and the District of Columbia. -
Supreme Court Decision
Many women entered the work force or sought higher education -
NAWSA Formed
An American Womens rights organization formed in May, 1890 as a unification of the National Women Suffrage Association -
Carrie Chapman Catt
She was a womans suffrage leader campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave womens rights to vote in 1920. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A tragedy that occured in 1911 when 275 girls who flung themselves from the ninth floor that were merely covered with tarpaulins where they hit the concrete. -
New NAWSA Tactics
This group resulted from the divisions in the women's rights movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It grew out of the New England Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1868 to focus exclusivley on the franchise. -
More radical Tactics
Alice Paul and the National Women's Party began using more radical tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution: picketing the White House, staging large suffrage marches and demonstrations, going to jail. -
19th Amendment
It prohibits to the United States Constitution that ant United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.