Women's Suffrage

By craschilla

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    The first big event in the history of the women's rights movement. Hundreds of men and women came out to protest the mistreatment of women and fight for equal rights. This opened way for more meetings regarding women's rights and spread the word all over the country.

  • Anthony published the magazine "The Revolution" (quote by Anthony)

    Anthony published the magazine "The Revolution" (quote by Anthony)
    "The true republic --men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."

  • NWSA is formed

    NWSA is formed
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed this organization and accused the fourteenth and fifteenth of discriminating against women.

  • AWSA is formed

    The American Woman Suffrage Association was founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. This organization focused on just the voting question and were less radical than the NWSA.

  • Wyoming passes the first Women's Suffrage Law

    Wyoming passes the first Women's Suffrage Law
    Soon after, women begin to serve on juries in the territory. Women in Wyoming are the first in the nation to obtain the right to vote and years later in 1925, Nellie Ross became the first woman governer in the United States.

  • United States v. Anthony

    U.S. v. Anthony: 1873 Susan B. Anthony conviction

  • For Not Ourselves Alone (video)

    For Not Ourselves Alone (video)
    For Not Ourselves Alone The story of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the impact they made together.

  • NAWSA formed

    NAWSA formed
    The NWSA and AWSA combine to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton and Anthony were the first two presidents of the organization. They

  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon The case upheld the state of Oregon's restrictions on the number of hours women were permitted to work.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (video)

    Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    "When the Quakers were founded...one of their principles was and is equality of the sexes. So I never had any other idea...the principle was always there." -Alice Paul Helped lead the campaign for women's suffrage and pushed to get the nineteenth amendment passed.

  • Give Mother The Right To Vote

    Give Mother The Right To Vote
    by Rose O'Neill

  • Jeannette Rankin is the first woman to be elected to congress.

  • Woodrow Wilson and the 19th Amendment

    Suffragists want the right for women to vote but Wilson does not support it. Many of the women protest outside the White House and are arrested and sentenced to 60 days at the work house. Some of the women (such as Alice Paul) were beaten and force fed. News of this gets out and Wilson pardons the suffragists and agrees to the passing of the 19th Amendment.

  • 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote (primary source)

    19th Amendment