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Wewaii [24]
2 years ago
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Explain the major events of the Women's Suffrage movement on a timeline and be sure to include what happened.

History
1 answer:
Musya8 [376]2 years ago
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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.

15th Amendment ratified, adding the word "male" to the Constitution for the first time.

January 8: first issue of The Revolution appeared.

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.

1876

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.

1880

Lucretia Mott died.

1887

January 25: The United States Senate voted on woman suffrage for the first time -- and also for the last time in 25 years.

1887

Three volumes of a history of the woman suffrage effort were published, written primarily by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mathilda Joslyn Gage.

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.

1893

Colorado passed by referendum an amendment to their state constitution, giving women the right to vote. Colorado was the first to amend its constitution to grant woman suffrage.

Lucy Stone died.

1896

Utah and Idaho passed woman suffrage laws.

1900

Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

1902

Elizabeth Cady Stanton died.

1904

Anna Howard Shaw became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

1906

Susan B. Anthony died.

1910

Washington State established woman suffrage.

1912

The Bull Moose / Progressive Party platform supported woman suffrage.

May 4: Women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote.

1913

Women in Illinois were given the vote in most elections -- the first state East of the Mississippi to pass a woman suffrage law.

Alice Paul and allies formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, first within the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

March 3: About 5,000 paraded for woman suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, with about half a million onlookers.

1914

The Congressional Union split from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

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.

1916

The Congressional Union recreated itself as the National Woman's Party.

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