Woman Suffrage Timeline Quiz

Woman Suffrage Timeline

• 1840: Women delegates at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London were barred from participating.
• 1848: The first women's suffrage convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY.
• 1850: The first nationwide women's rights convention was held in Worcester, MA.
• 1866: The American Equal Rights Association (AERA) was formed.
• 1868: The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to those born or naturalized in the US, but limited rights to "male".
• 1869: The AERA split into the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) due to differences on voting rights for African American men.
• 1869: Wyoming Territory was the first to grant women the right to vote.
• 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
• 1870: Women in Utah Territory were granted the right to vote, but it was revoked in 1887 and reinstated in 1895.
• 1871: Victoria Woodhull addressed the House Judiciary Committee about women's right to vote. An anti-suffrage party was formed.
• 1872: Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in a presidential election.
• 1874: The US Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not grant women the right to vote.
• 1878: The women's suffrage amendment (Susan B. Anthony Amendment) was introduced in Congress for the first time.
• 1883: Washington Territory granted women the right to vote (revoked in 1888; reinstated in 1910).
• 1890: Suffrage groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
• 1893: Colorado granted women the right to vote.
• 1896: Idaho granted women the right to vote.
• 1902: Women from 10 nations met to discuss women's suffrage.
• 1907: Harriot Stanton Blatch organized the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women.
• 1908: Women marched in NYC despite being denied a permit.
• 1909: James Lees Laidlaw formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage.
• 1910: The first large-scale suffrage parade of women took place in NYC.
• 1911: 3,000 suffragists marched in NYC.
• 1912: 10,000+ suffragists marched in NYC.
• 1912: Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona granted women the right to vote.
• 1913: Women's suffrage march occurred in Washington D.C., facing violence
• 1913: Alaska Territory granted women the right to vote.
• 1914: Nevada and Montana granted women the right to vote.
• 1914: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Committee for Woman Suffrage.
• 1915: 50,000 women marched in NYC.
• 1916: The Congressional Union became the National Woman's Party (NWP); Jeanette Rankin was elected to Congress.
• 1917: NWP suffragists called "Silent Sentinels" demonstrated against the government, experienced arrests and force-feeding.
• 1917: 25,000+ suffragists demonstrated in NYC.
• 1917: New York, granted women the right to vote.
• 1917: Suffragists suffered violence in Virginia.
• 1918: Wilson backed a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage.
• 1919: Michigan, South Dakota, Oklahoma granted women the right to vote; Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment passed the House of Representatives.
• 1919: Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment passed the Senate.
• 1920: Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote nationally.
• 1941-1984: Several states finally ratified the 19th Amendment.

Later Ratifying States

• Florida (1941)
• Virginia (1952)
• Alabama (1953)
• South Carolina (1969)
• Louisiana (1970)
• North Carolina (1971)
• Mississippi (1984)