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1840 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London. Abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. This snub leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America.
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Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio.
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1861-1865 - The Civil War. Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort.
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1867 - divide sharply on supporting the enfranchisement of black men before women.
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1872 - Susan B. Anthony is arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."
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1890 - The National and American associations merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton becomes the new organization's first presiden
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1900 - Anthony retires as the president of the National American and, to the surprise of many, recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor; Catt is elected.
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1914 - The Senate votes on the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment, but it does not pass.
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1919 - For a third time, the House votes to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment, and suffragists begin their ratification campaign.
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1920 - Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee, three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August. American women win full voting rights.
