1840- Lucretia Mott

and Elizabeth cady

Stanton attend the
World Anti- Slavery
Convention held in
London.
Lucretia Mott - Civil Rights
Activist, Women's Rights
Activist..
(www.biography.com)

1852- The issue

of women's
property rights is
presented to the
Vermont Senate
by Clara Howard
Nichols.
1869- NWSA is
founded and
Wyoming territory
is organized with
a woman
suffrage
provision.

1853- Antoinette Brown

and Susan B. Anthony,
are not allowed to speak
at The World's
Temperance Convention
held in New York City.

1848- The 1st Womens

Rights Convention is
held at Seneca Falls,
New York and Stanton
presents The
Declaration of
Sentiments.
1866- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony
decide to form the
American Equal
Rights
Association.

Susan B. Anthony - Publisher, Civil

Rights Activist, Editor, Women's
Rights Activist, Journalist.
(www.biography.com)

1870- The Womans

Journal is published
and the Fifteenth
Amendment gives
black men the right
to vote.

1871- 1. Sixteen women are

arrested for illegally voting
and Sojourner Truth is
turned away. 2. Oregon
lawmakers pass laws where
married women can own
business, control her wages,
and protect her property.

1849- The first

state
constitution in
California
extends property
rights to women.

1850- The 2nd

National
Womens Rights
Convention is
held at
Worcester, MA.

1868- 1. The 1st edition of The

Revolution is published and the New
England Womans Club is established.
2. In Vineland, New Jersey, 172
women cast ballots in a separate box
during the presidential election. 3.
Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas
introduces the federal womans
suffrage amendment in Congress. 4.
The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified.
Citizens and voters are defined
exclusively as male.
The
Revolution
(newspaper).
(www.pinterest
.com)

1874- The
Woman's
Christian
Temperance
Union is
founded.

1890-1925Progressive
Erawomen
enter public
life.
1896- 1. National
Association of Colored
Womens Club is
founded. 2. Utah joins
the Union with full
suffrage for women. 3.
Idaho adopts woman
suffrage.

1876- A
Declaration of
Rights for
Women is
presented to the
Vice President.

1892Federal
Suffrage
Association
is founded.

1878- 1st vote

on woman
suffrage is
taken in the
Senate and
defeated.
Woman's
Christian
Temperance
Union.
(www.creemore.c
om)

1893Colorado
adopts
woman
suffrage.
1903- The
Womens
Trade Union
League of
New York is
formed.

1888- The
National
Council of
Women in the
United States is
established.
1894- 600,000
signatures are
presented to the
New York State
Constitutional
Convention in a
failed effort to bring
a woman suffrage
amendment to the
voters.

1910- 1. Washington
adopts woman
suffrage. 2. The
Womens Political
Union organizes the
1st suffrage parade
in New York City.

1890- 1. The National

American Woman Suffrage
Association is formed. 2.
Wyoming grants woman
suffrage. 3. The American
Federation of Labor declares
support for woman suffrage.
4. The South Dakota
campaign for woman
suffrage loses.
1895Stanton
publishes
the
Womans
Bible.
1911- 1. NAOWS
is organized. 2.
The elaborate
California suffrage
campaign
succeeds.

Delegate ribbon, National American Woman Suffrage

Association 31st Annual Convention. (www.loc.gov)

1912- 1. Theodore Roosevelts Bull

Moose Party supports woman
suffrage. 2. 20,000 suffrage
supporters join a New York City
suffrage parade. 3. Oregon, Kansas,
and Arizona adopt woman suffrage.
1916Jeannette
Rankin is the
1st woman
elected to the
House.

1917- 1. New York

women gain suffrage. 2.
Arkansas women are
allowed to vote in
primary elections. 3.
June- National womans
party picketers are
arrested.

August 26,
1920- Three
quarters of
the state
legislatures
ratify the
Nineteenth
Amendment.

1913- The
Congressional
Union is
organized.

1914Nevada and
Montana
adopt
woman
suffrage.
1918- 1. Suffrage
amendment passes
House, but not Senate. 2.
Michigan, South Dakota,
and Oklahoma adopt
woman suffrage. 3.
President Woodrow
Wilson addresses and
supports woman suffrage.

1915- Forty thousand march

in a NYC suffrage parade.

1915 Vote for Womens

Suffrage. (www.pinterest.com)

1919- Senate passes 19th

amendment- ratification process
starts.
Suffragists
parade,
1913
(public
domain).
(www.soldi
ersinpettico
ats.org)

The Womens Liberation Movement.

(www.pinterest.com)

Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer.

(www.gretchenwoelfle.com)

Credit of Timeline:
www.nwhm.org