WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

1848 1850 1865 1866The first women’s

rights conference is

held in Seneca Falls, New

York.

The first national

women’s rights convention is

held in Worcester,

Massachusetts.

The Thirteenth Amendment to

the U.S. Constitution,

ending slavery, is adopted.

The American Equal Rights

Association is formed.

Its goal was to join the cause

of gender equality with that of racial

equality.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS TO VOTE TIMELINE

1869 1870 1872 1890The Fourteenth Amendment to

the U.S. Constitution,

giving full citizenship

rights to former slaves,

is adopted.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and

Susan B. Anthony start the National Women Suffrage

Association (NWSA); Lucy

Stone begins the American Woman

Suffrage Association

(AWSA); Wyoming

Territory grants women full and equal suffrage.

The Fifteenth Amendment to

the U.S. Constitution, giving African American men

the right to vote, is

adopted.

Susan B. Anthony, along

with fifteen other women,

votes in the presidential

election; she is later put on trial and found guilty of breaking the

law.

1893 1902 1906 1913The National

Woman Suffrage Association and

the American Woman Suffrage

Association merge to form the National

American Woman Suffrage

Association (NAWSA).

Lucy Stone, the founder of the

American Woman Suffrage Association dies.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies;

Carrie Chapman Catt starts the International

Woman’s Suffrage

Association.

Susan B. Anthony dies.

1917 1920On March 3, a

massive women’s march

is held in Washington, D.C.

Suffragists are jailed for

picketing the White House.

The Nineteenth

Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution is adopted, granting

women the right to vote.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton(November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902)

She helped organize the Seneca

Falls Convention in 1848 which

focused on women’s rights and

co wrote the Declaration of

Sentiments. She is often

credited with starting the first

organized women's rights and

women's suffrage movements in

the United States.

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Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880)

An American Quaker,

abolitionist, social reformer,

and proponent of women's

rights. She helped organize

the Seneca Falls Convention

and co wrote the

Declaration of Sentiments.

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Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)

Played an important role in

the 19th century women's

rights movement by

introducing women's suffrage

into the United States. She

traveled the United States

and Europe, and gave 75 to

100 speeches every year on

women's rights for 45 years.

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Sojourner Truth(1797? – November 26, 1883)

Born into slavery and

escaped in 1826. Worked

as an abolitionist. Spoke

out for women’s rights.

Her most famous speech

“Ain’t I A Women” was

given in 1851 at a

women’s rights

convention in Ohio.

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Dr. Anna Howard Shaw(February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919)

Anna Howard Shaw was an

American suffragist who became

the first woman minister of the

Methodist Protestant Church. She

earned a medical degree in 1886

and served as president of the

National American Woman

Suffrage Association for nearly a

decade. During World War I, she

worked diligently on home-front

war activities. She died just before

women gained the right to vote.5

Carrie Chapman Catt(January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947)

Carrie Chapman Catt worked as a

teacher to pay her own way

through Iowa State College. She

worked in the school system and

for newspapers before joining

suffrage movement in 1887. She

took over the National American

Woman Suffrage Association in

1900 and came up with the

“Winning Plan” that helped pass

the 19th Amendment in 1920.

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Alice Paul(January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977)

In 1910, Paul became involved in the

women’s struggle for the right to vote. At

first, Paul was a member of the National

American Woman Suffrage Association

(NAWSA), and served as the chair of its

congressional committee. She later formed

the National Woman's Party (NWP). It’s

focus was an amendment to the US

Constitution allowing women to vote.

NWPs members picketed the White House

in 1917 to get its point across. As a part of

this action, Paul was jailed in October and

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Lucy Burns(April 20, 1879 – September 15, 1966)

An American suffragist and

women's rights advocate. She

was a passionate activist

abroad in the United Kingdom

and the United States. Burns

was a close friend of Alice

Paul, and together they

ultimately formed the

National Woman's Party.

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The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing

women the right to vote, formally

adopted into the U.S. Constitution on

August 26, 1920 by proclamation of

Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.

The amendment was the culmination

of more than 70 years of struggle by

woman suffragists. Its two sections

read simply: "The right of citizens of

the United States to vote shall not be

denied or abridged by the United

States or by any State on account of

sex" and "Congress shall have power to

enforce this article by appropriate

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