Women’s Suffrage Timeline 1851 1840 1849 Worcester, Massachusetts is the site Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady The first state constitution of the second National Women's Stanton are barred from attending the Rights Convention. Participants in California extends included Horace Mann, New York World Anti-Slavery Convention held in property rights to women. Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks London. This prompts them to hold a Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Women's Convention in the US. Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers.

1850 1848 Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site 1852 Seneca Falls, New York is the location of the first National Women's Rights for the first Women's Rights Convention. Frederick Douglass, The issue of women's Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy property rights is presented creating the agenda of women's Stone, and Sojourner Truth are in to the Vermont Senate by activism for decades to come. attendance. A strong alliance is formed with the Abolitionist Clara Howard Nichols. This is Movement. a major issue for the

Suffragists.

1853 1866 1869 Women delegates, Antoinette Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The American Equal Rights Brown and Susan B. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony form the Association is wrecked by are not allowed to speak at The American Equal Rights disagreements over the World's Temperance Association, an Fourteenth Amendment and Convention held in New York organization dedicated to the question of whether to City. the goal of suffrage for all support the proposed regardless of gender or Fifteenth Amendment. race.

1861-1865 1868 1870 During the Civil War, efforts for the Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Fifteenth Susan B. Anthony, and Amendment gave suffrage movement Parker Pillsbury publish the come to a halt. first edition of The Black men the right Women put their Revolution. This periodical to vote. carries the motto “Men, energies toward the their rights and nothing war effort. more; women, their rights and nothing less!” 1874 1871 1878 A Woman Suffrage Victoria Woodhull addresses The Woman's Amendment is proposed in the House Judiciary the U.S. Congress. When the Committee, arguing women’s Christian rights to vote under the Temperance Union 19th Amendment passes Fourteenth Amendment. The (WCTU) is founded by forty-one years later, it is Anti-Suffrage Party is worded exactly the same as founded. Annie Wittenmyer. this 1878 Amendment.

1876 1872 1887

Susan B. Anthony casts Susan B. Anthony and The first vote on her ballot for Ulysses S. Matilda Joslyn Gage disrupt the official Centennial woman suffrage is Grant in the taken in the Senate presidential election program at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and is defeated. and is arrested and presenting a “Declaration of brought to trial in Rights for Women” to the Vice Rochester, New York. President.

1890-1925 1893 1888 The Progressive Era begins. Women The National Council of from all classes and backgrounds enter public life. Women's roles Women in the United expand and result in an Colorado adopts States is established to increasing politicization of promote the women. Consequently the issue of woman suffrage. advancement of women woman suffrage becomes part of in society. mainstream politics.

1890 1892 1894 NWSA and AWSA merge Olympia Brown and the National founds the Federal 600,000 signatures are American Woman Suffrage Suffrage Association presented to the New York Association is formed. to campaign for State Constitutional Stanton is the first women’s suffrage. Convention in a failed president. The Movement effort to bring a woman focuses efforts on suffrage amendment to the securing suffrage at the voters. state level. 1895 1903 1911 NAWSA moves to distance Form the Women's Trade Union itself from Stanton because League of New York, an The elaborate many conservative organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated California suffrage suffragists considered her to campaign succeeds be too radical and, thus, to unionization for working potentially damaging to the women and to woman suffrage. by a small margin. suffrage campaign.

1912 1896 1910 Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Twenty thousand Wells-Barnett, and Frances E.W. Washington State Harper among others found adopts woman suffrage supporters the the National Association of suffrage. join a New York City Colored Women’s Clubs. suffrage parade. Utah joins the Union with full The Women’s Political suffrage for women. Union organizes the Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona adopt woman Idaho adopts woman suffrage. first suffrage parade suffrage. in New York City.

1913 1915 1917 Two women then Mabel Vernon and Sara New York women gain organized the Bard Field are involved suffrage. Congressional Union, in a transcontinental later known at the tour which gathers over Arkansas women are National Women’s Party a half-million signatures allowed to vote in (1916). on petitions to Congress. primary elections.

1914 1916 1918

Jeannette Rankin of Representative Rankin Nevada and Montana adopt Montana is the first opens debate on a woman suffrage. woman elected to the suffrage amendment in The National Federation of House of Representatives. the House. The Women’s Clubs, which had Woodrow Wilson states amendment passes. The over two million women that the Democratic Party amendment fails to win members throughout the U.S., platform will support the required two thirds formally endorses the suffrage. majority in the Senate. suffrage campaign. 1919

The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment and the ratification process begins.

August 26, 1920

Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American Women win full voting rights.