Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
A Time Line for Women’s Suffrage July The Declaration of Independence is signed in Phil adelphia
1776 Jan Mary Katherine Goddard prints the first full copy of the Declaration uary 1777 1836 Sarah Grimke speaks publicly against slavery 1837 Lucretia Mott speaks publicly against slavery 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are turned away as delegates to the World Anti Slavery Convention in London 1843 Lucy Stone enters Oberlin College and is among its first women students 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Smith Miller and two others organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls New York Stanton and Elizabeth McClintock write the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad 1850 Amelia Bloomer pushes for dress reform by wear ing bloomers 1851 Sojourner Truth makes her Ain't I a Woman speech before a women's rights meeting in Ohio 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin 1861 Suffragists set aside their work to aid the North 1865 during the Civil War 1868 The 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitu 1871 tion give black males citizenship and the vote women's rights are ignored 1869 The women's suffrage movement divides over polit ical differences creating the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association 1872 Susan B Anthony stands trial in Rochester New
1876 York for trying to vote in the presidential election Susan B Anthony presents a Declaration of Rights for women at the Centennial Convention in Phil adelphia Susan B Anthony writes a women's suffrage amendment to the Constitution 1878 1883 Frances Willard founds the Woman's Christian 1890 Temperance Union The suffrage movement reunites to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago and launches the Settlement Movement 1893 1895 1896 Lucy Stone dies Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes the Woman's Bible A group of African American women which includes Harriet Tubman Mary Church Terrell and Ida B Wells Barnett found the National Associa tion of Colored Women 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw become leaders of the suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies Susan B Anthony dies 1902 1906 1913 Activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns leave the National American Woman Suffrage Association to organize the Congressional Union later the National Woman's Party Marchers are attacked as they march in a suffrage parade in Washington DC Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the nation's first woman to serve in the US House of Represen 1913 1916 tatives
1917 The United States enters World War I 1919 The 19th Amendment passes both the US House of Representatives and the Senate 1920 Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment and women's suffrage becomes the law of the land 1923 Alice Paul writes an Equal Rights Amendment to end discrimination based on gender which was never ratified
