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." Â 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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