Women Suffrage Timeline 1840-1920 PDF

## Woman Suffrage Timeline ### 1840 - 1890 * 1840: Women delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London are barred from participating, igniting a backlash among American women (June 12-23). * 1848: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and three other women convene the first women's su...

## Woman Suffrage Timeline ### 1840 - 1890 * 1840: Women delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London are barred from participating, igniting a backlash among American women (June 12-23). * 1848: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and three other women convene the first women's suffrage convention in Seneca Falls, NY (July 19-20). * 1850: First nationwide women's rights convention held in Worcester, MA. * 1866: American Equal Rights Association (AERA) formed to secure suffrage for all U.S. citizens. * 1868: Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to persons born or naturalized in the United States, including freed slaves, but qualifies the citizens' rights with the word "male". * 1869: AERA splits into the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association over the issue of giving the vote to African American men via the Fifteenth Amendment. * 1869: Wyoming Territory becomes first to grant women the vote. * 1870: Fifteenth Amendment gives African American men the vote. * 1870: Women in Utah Territory granted franchise (revoked in 1887; reinstated in 1895). * 1871: Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women's right to vote as citizens is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. * 1871: Anti-Suffrage Party is formed to oppose woman suffrage. * 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested in Rochester, NY, for voting in presidential election. * 1874: U.S. Supreme Court rules the Fourteenth Amendment does not grant women the vote. * 1878: Women's suffrage amendment (Susan B. Anthony Amendment) introduced in Congress for the first time. * 1883: Washington Territory grants women the vote (revoked in 1888; reinstated in 1910). * 1887: First vote on women's suffrage defeated in U.S. Senate. * 1890: Suffrage groups merge into the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). ### 1893 - 1915 * 1893: Colorado grants women the vote. * 1896: Idaho adopts woman suffrage. * 1902: Women from 10 nations meet in Washington, DC, to plan international suffrage effort. * 1907: Harriot Stanton Blatch organizes the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women. * 1908: Two dozen members of the Progressive Woman Suffrage Union march down Broadway, New York City, despite being denied a permit (February 16). * 1909: James Lees Laidlaw forms the Men's League for Woman Suffrage. * 1910: The first large-scale suffrage parade of 400 women, organized by Harriot Stanton Blatch, marches down Fifth Avenue in New York City (May 21). * 1911: 3,000 suffragists march down Fifth Avenue in New York City accompanied by floats and bands (May 6). * 1912: 10,000 suffragists march down Fifth Avenue in New York City (May 6). * 1912: 15,000 suffragists proceed down Fifth Avenue in a nighttime "Torchlight Parade" of marchers, floats, chariots, and horses lit by orange Japanese lanterns (November 9). * 1912: Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona adopt woman suffrage. * 1913: A mob of angry, drunken men attacks the 8,000 marchers of the Woman's Suffrage Procession in Washington, DC, on the eve of President Wilson's inauguration, and 300 women are treated for injuries (March 3). * 1913: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Committee for Woman Suffrage as a subcommittee of NAWSA (April). * 1913: Alaska Territory grants women suffrage. * 1914: Nevada and Montana adopt woman suffrage. * 1914: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns break away from NAWSA to found the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. * 1915: 50,000 suffragists march down Fifth Avenue in New York City, the largest parade the city has ever seen. The parade includes 20,000 women, 2,500 musicians (October 23). ### 1916 - 1920 * 1916: The Congressional Union becomes the National Woman's Party (NWP). * 1916: Jeannette Rankin (R., Montana) becomes the first women elected to Congress in the House of Representatives (November 6). * 1917: NWP suffragists -the "Silent Sentinels"- begin demonstrations against the government. Arrests, trials, jail terms, hunger strikes, and force-feeding soon follow (January 10). * 1917: 1,000 suffragists march seven times around the White House on the day of President Wilson's second inauguration. The "Grand Picket" mirrors the march around the biblical city of Jericho that felled its walls (March 4). * 1917: 25,000 suffragists led by Carrie Chapman Catt parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City, carrying posters containing signatures of more than 1 million New York women demanding the vote (October 7) * 1917: New York State grants women the vote via constitutional amendment (November 6). * 1917: Suffragists brutalized during the Night of Terror at Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia (November 14-15). * 1918: President Woodrow Wilson backs constitutional amendment as a war measure (September 30). * 1919: Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma adopt woman suffrage. * 1919: Federal woman suffrage amendment passed by the House of Representatives (May 19). * 1919: Federal woman suffrage amendment passed by the Senate (June 4). * 1920: Tennessee becomes the last of thirty-six states needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment (August 18). * 1920: League of Women Voters organized to guide newly enfranchised women. ### **Late Ratification** Even after women won the vote, several states took their time formally ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment. They were: | Year | State | |---|---| | 1941 | Maryland | | 1952 | Virginia | | 1953 | Alabama | | 1969 | Florida | | 1969 | South Carolina | | 1970 | Georgia | | 1970 | Louisiana | | 1971 | North Carolina | | 1984 | Mississippi |