Women´s Suffrage

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  • 1837

    Young teacher Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers.

  • 1848

    July 14: call to a woman's rights convention appeared in a Seneca County, New York, newspaper. July 19-20: Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, issuing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments

  • 1850

    October: first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts.

  • 1851

    Sojourner Truth defends woman's rights and "Negroes' rights" at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio.

  • 1855

    Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name.

  • 1866

    American Equal Rights Association to join causes of black suffrage and women's suffrage

  • 1868

    New England Woman Suffrage Association founded to focus on woman suffrage; dissolves in a split in just another year.

  • 1869

    American Equal Rights Association splits. National Woman Suffrage Association founded primarily by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. November: American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe. December 10: the new Wyoming territory includes woman suffrage.

  • 1870

    March 30: 15th Amendment adopted, prohibiting states from preventing citizens from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." From 1870 - 1875, women attempted to use the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to justify voting and the practice of law.

  • 1872

    Republican Party platform included a reference to woman suffrage. Campaign was initiated by Susan B. Anthony to encourage women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification. November 5: Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote; some, including Anthony, are arrested.

  • June 1873

    Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting.

  • 1874

    Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded.

  • 1878

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    Frances Willard became the leader of the WCTU.
    1878
    January 10: The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced for the first time in the United States Congress. First Senate committee hearing on the Anthony Amendment

  • 1890

    American Woman Suffrage Association and National Woman Suffrage Association merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Matilda Joslyn Gage founded the Women's National Liberal Union, reacting to the merger of the AWSA and NWSA. Wyoming admitted to the union as a state with woman suffrage, which Wyoming included when it became a territory in 1869.

  • 1915

    Carrie Chapman Catt elected to presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
    October 23: More than 25,000 women marched in New York City on Fifth Avenue in favor of Woman Suffrage.

  • 1920

    August 18: Tennessee legislature ratified the Anthony Amendment by a single vote, giving the Amendment the necessary states for ratification. August 24: Tennessee governor signed the Anthony Amendment. August 26: United States Secretary of State signed the Anthony Amendment into law.

  • 1923

    Equal Rights Amendment introduced into the United States Congress, proposed by the National Woman's Party.