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The Beginning
Over 3000 men and women came together at Seneca Falls, New York to protest the unfair treatment of women in social, political and religious aspects. This was organized by Elizabeth Cady Staton and Lucretia Mott, which helped launch the women's rights movement. -
Civil War
The Civil War cause a push back in the Women's rights movment. The women had to worrry about the soldiers. Many women helped in the war as nurses or spies, and some women had to stay at hoe and learn how to take care of things on the farm. -
11th Women's Rights Convention
The American Equal Rights Association was creaed and the members wanted to achieve suffrage for both African- Americans and American women. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association
The National Women Suffrage Association was led by Susan B. Anthony, proposed an amendment for the right to vote for women to the constitution. Susan's successors presented the amendment to Congress but it failed. Susan later tried to vote in the 1872 election but was arrested. -
Draft and Proposal
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton created a amendment draft to give the women the right to vote. They presented it to the Senate and they formed a group to discuss and debate the draft. In 1886 it was rejected by a 16 to 34 vote. -
National American Women Suffrage Association
In 1890, the AWSA and the NWSA formed into one organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The new organization worked from state to state to lobby for women's voting rights. By 1986, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho all amended their state constitutions allowing women the right to vote. -
State Women Amendments
From 1910 to 1918, states such as the Alaska Territory, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington granted women the right o vote according to their state constitutions. -
Jeannette Rankin
She was the first person in history to be elected into Congress. She was elected to the House of Representatives. She served two terms, and ended up the president of a Committee of Women's Suffrage. -
Ratification
The house of Representatives passed the 19th amendment, 2 weeks later the Senate followed. -
Ratification
Women have been fighting for almost a Century to get the 19th Amendment passed. Achieving this task took decades of fighting and protesting. It all paid off in the end becuase women now have the right to vote. -
Ocars Leser
Oscars stop two women from voting in Baltimore, Maryland. He believed that the Constituition limited the suffrage to men and the Maryland legislture refused to vote in order to ratify the 19th amendment.
