Women's Suffrage

Seneca Falls Convention

Jul 19, 1848

First suffrage conevtion. Women split over the issues of voting around the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Voting rights in Wyoming

Jul 1, 1869

Convinced state legislaters to allow women voting rights.

Women Citizens

Nov 9, 1871

Susan B. Anthony and other women tried voting at least 150 times in ten states and district of colombus.

First Supreme Court Decision

Nov 9, 1875

The Supreme Court agreed that women were citizens but didn't give them citizenship so they couldn't vote.

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Nov 9, 1890

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton founded NWSA which later formed with another group for NAWSA

Susan B. Anthony's Succesor

Nov 9, 1900

Susan B. Anthony's succesor was Carrie Chapman Catt

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Nov 9, 1911

With low wages dangerous working conditions and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms. With the fire reformation had began.

Catt's Presidency

Nov 9, 1915

Carrie Chapman Catt resumed her presidency when she returned from New York's women suffrage party. She concentrated on 5 tatics.
1. Painstaking organizations
2. Close ties between local, state, and national workers
3. Establishing a wide base of support
4. Cautious lobbying
5. Gracious, ladylike behavoior

Lucy Burns and Alice Paul

Nov 9, 1917

These two women created a Congressional Union and the succesor was the NAWSA and Paul succesfully created a round-the-clock picket line around the White House

Women can vote

Nov 9, 1919

Congress created the 19th Amendment in allowing women to vote. It was ratified a year later 72 years after women first convened and demanded voting rights