400px suffrage parade new york city may 6 1912

Women's Suffrage

By chase72

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    women were split over the 14th and 15th amendment about voting rights with blacks several inspirational speaches were given here

  • Wyoming

    Wyoming
    Women suffragists gained victories in 3 states allowing them to vote including utah, colorado, and wyoming. this was a huge jumped for womens rights

  • Illegal voting

    Illegal voting
    150 women voted and then took it to court to test if they were citizens the courts quicky came up with being a citizen doesnt give you the right to vote

  • Supreme Court Decision

    Supreme Court Decision
    Ruled that women were indeed citizens... but that did not promise them the right to vote. this actually set back the womens suffrage movement.

  • NAWSA Reformed

    NAWSA Reformed
    NACW joined with NWSA to form the national american woman suffrage association. lead by lucy stone and julia howe, this was a big movement beacuse they were a large force of women and could cordinate their efforts very well.

  • Carrie Chapman Catt

    Carrie Chapman Catt
    President of NAWSA major leader in the campiegn for womans suffrage she had many successes in her life time, also was aive for the passage of the amendment to give women the right to vote

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    146 employees die in fire, gruesome sight as women jumped from the building to keep from burning to death, huge wake up call for industries and safety for their employees. many people felt sympathy for the dead women in the fires.

  • New NAWSA tactics

    New NAWSA tactics
    some changes in their tactics where closer tie between local state and national workers, painstaking organization,establishing wide base of support, cautious lobbying, and gracious ladylike behavior. Susan B anthony brought about these reforms

  • More radical tactics

    More radical tactics
    NAWSA tried as hard as they possibliy could for a final push,
    1. around the clock pickett line in front of white house
    2.pressured federal government. this final push made the government pass the 19th amendment allowing women what the finally wanted.

  • 19th Amedment

    19th Amedment
    19th amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.