The Women's Suffrage Era

By toxicterryale

  • The World Anti-Slavery Convention

    Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. This prompts them to hold a Women's Convention in the US. Female delegates were denied to participate in the convention, only because of their gender. Information found at http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/Slavery/mott.html
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    The Road to Women Suffrage

  • The First Women's Rights Convention

    Seneca Falls, New York is the location for the first Women's Rights Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come. An estimated three hundred women and men attended the Convention, including Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass. Information found at : http://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/the-first-womens-rights-convention.htm

  • The State Constitution

    The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women.Before the Civil War, married women's property laws were concerned with equity procedures, focusing on the appropriate pleadings a wife should use to file a suit but not altering a husband's privileges granted by prior common law principles. After the Civil War, laws were concerned with equalizing property relations between husband and wife. Information found at: https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/property_

  • The National Women's Rights Convention

    Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site of the first National Women's Rights Convention. Frederick Douglass, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth are in attendance. A strong alliance is formed with the Abolitionist Movement. For two days, more than 1,000 delegates from 11 different states had filled Brinley Hall to overflowing. Speakers, most of them women, demanded the right to vote, and to own property.

  • The Second National Women's Rights Convention

    Worcester, Massachusetts is the site of the second National Women's Rights Convention. Participants included Horace Mann, New York Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers. By the time of the second national convention, women's rights conventions in several states showed the progress of "a great moral civil war, information found at: http://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/more-womens-rights-conventions.htm

  • Women's Property Rights

    Women's Property Rights
    The issue of women's property rights is presented to the Vermont Senate by Clara Howard Nichols. This is a major issue for the Suffragists.

  • The World's Temperance Convention

    Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony, are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City.
    They weren't allowed to speak at the convention, because of their gender. Information found at: https://sites.google.com/site/frederickdouglassinbritain/feedback/frederick-douglass-in-england/the-world-temperance-convention

  • Women in the War

    During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort. There were many women playing important roles in the Civil War, including nurses, spies, soldiers, abolitionists, civil rights advocates and promoters of women’s suffrage. Information found at: http://www.historynet.com/women-in-the-civil-war

  • American Equal Rights Association

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race. The purpose of the AERA was to secure equal rights to all citizens.

  • The Revolution

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution. This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!” Caroline Seymour Severance establishes the New England Woman’s Club. The “Mother of Clubs” sparked the club movement which became popular by the late nineteenth century. In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election. Sen

  • AERA

    The American Equal Rights Association is wrecked by disagreements over the Fourteenth Amendment and the question of whether to support the proposed Fifteenth Amendment which would enfranchise Black American males while avoiding the question of woman suffrage entirely.

  • The 15th Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment gave black men the right to vote. NWSA refused to work for its ratification and instead the members advocate for a Sixteenth Amendment that would dictate universal suffrage. Frederick Douglass broke with Stanton and Anthony over the position of NWSA.

  • The Anti-Suffrage Party

    Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to vote under the fourteenth amendment. The Anti-Suffrage Party is founded.