Women's Rights- A Struggle Towards Suffrage (1807-1920)

 A Timeline of Hardships and Achievements

 A timeline of the women suffrage movement in the U.S. is given
below.

                                               19th Century 

1807
With voting rights the states' decision, no states have women suffrage.
1840
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, and other women are prohibited from participating because of their gender at a World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.
1848  
The f
irst Women's Rights convention takes place in Seneca Fall, New York, organized by Stanton and Mott.
1850-1861
A women's rights convention is held in April, in Salem, Ohio. The first national women's rights convention held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts. Annual Women's Rights convention is held.
1861-1865
Women put aside suffrage activities to help in the Civil War effort. 
1867
The 14th amendment passes Congress, and defines citizens as "male". This becomes the first use of the word "male" in the Constitution. People in Kansas campaign for black and woman suffrage, but fail. Susan B. Anthony forms the Equal 
Rights Association, and works for suffrage.
1868

The 14th amendment is ratified, or approved. The 15th amendment, the amendment granting black suffrage, passes Congress. Women petition to be involved, but are rejected. The New England Woman Suffrage Association is formed. In New Jersey, 172 women vote but their ballots are ignored.
1869
Frederick Douglass and others back down from woman suffrage to fight for black male suffrage. The NWSA is formed with Stanton as president. The AWSA is formed with Henry Ward Beecher as president. Wyoming grants first woman suffrage since 1807. 
1870
The 15th amendment is ratified. 45 females vote in Massachusetts and the casted ballots are ignored. Utah grants woman suffrage.
1871
The Anti-Suffrage Society is formed.
1872
Susan B. Anthony and other supporters are arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women were held for a $500 bail. Anthony herself was held for a $1000 bail.
1873
Anthony loses her case in June and is fined $100 plus costs, denied trial by jury. 
1874
A protest was held at a commemoration of the Battle of Lexington. The US Supreme Court decides that being a citizen does not guarantee suffrage. 
1876
On July 4, in Philadelphia, Anthony reads The Declaration for the Rights of Women
from a podium in front of the Liberty Bell. Later, suffragists meet in the First Unitarian Church.
1878
Woman suffrage amendment is first introduced in US Congress.
1880
Mott dies.

1882
The House and Senate appoint committees on woman suffrage and both report favorably.
1884
Belva Lockwood runs for US president and the US House of Representatives debates woman suffrage.
1886
Women protest being rejected from ceremonies for the Statue of Liberty. The suffrage amendment reaches the US 
Senate floor, and is defeated 2 to 1.
1887
Utah women lose suffrage.
1890
The NWSA and the AWSA combine to form NAWSA with Stanton as president. The focus turns to working at the state level. The campaign loses in South Dakota.
1892
Stanton resigns as NAWSA president.
1893
Colorado men vote for woman suffrage.
1894
Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for woman suffrage is turned down in New York.
1895
Utah women regain suffrage.
1896
Idaho grants woman suffrage.

                                               20th Century



1900
Carrie Chapman Catt takes over the NAWSA.
1902
Stanton dies.
1906
Anthony dies.
1907
Harriet Stanton Blatch, forms the Equality League of Self Supporting Women, which becomes the Women's Political Union in 1910.
1910
Washington grants woman suffrage.
1911
California grants woman suffrage. In New York City, 3,000 march for suffrage.
1912
Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party includes woman suffrage in their platform. Oregon, Arizona, and Kansas grant woman suffrage.
1913
Women's Suffrage parade is attacked by a mob. Alaska territory grants suffrage. Illinois grants municipal and presidential but, not state suffrage to women. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns found the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU).
1915
On October 23, 20,00 women marched for suffrage in the pre-election parade for suffrage in NYC.
1916
CU renamed toNational Women's Party (NWP).
1917
NWP protests in front of the White House. 500 women are arrested, 168 women serve jail time. North Dakota, Indiana, Nebraska, and Michigan grant presidential suffrage; Arkansas grants primary suffrage. New York, South Dakota, and Oklahoma state constitutions grant suffrage.
1918
The jailed suffragists are released from prison. Appellate court rules all the arrests were illegal. President Wilsondeclares support for suffrage. Suffrage Amendment passes US House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate.
1919
The Suffrage Amendment passes US Senate on June 4th. The battle for ratification by at least 36 states begins.

1920-

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     The amendment is ratified.
The On August 26 the Nineteenth Amendment becomes law. The amendment states: "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." Women in all states have the right to vote in all elections. Its victory accomplished, NAWSA ceases to exist, but its organization becomes the center of the League of Women Voters.