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Women's Rights History Timeline
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American Women's History Timeline
1848 – First women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York.
1866 – American Equal Rights Association formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for suffrage for women and blacks.
1868 - Fourteenth Amendment defining citizenship ratified.
1869 – National Woman Suffrage Association formed to obtain woman suffrage amendment to United States Constitution.
1869 – American Woman Suffrage Association formed to obtain amendments to state constitutions.
1872 – Fifteenth Amendment granting right of U.S. citizen to vote ratified.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony testing status as citizen votes in presidential election; is arrested and fined.
1874 – Woman’s Christian Temperance Union formed, becomes force in woman suffrage movement.
1890 – National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form National American Woman Suffrage Association.
1903 – Women’s Trade Union League formed.
1913 – Congressional Union, later renamed National Women’s Party, formed to obtain amendment to Constitution for vote for women.
1919 – Nineteenth Amendment passed by House and Senate; sent to states for ratification.
1920 – Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is adopted, granting voting suffrage rights to American women.
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