context - Timeline

First women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York

First national Woman's Rights Convention

American Equal Rights Association is formed -Advocated for suffrage for all races and genders

14th amendment ratified (says citizens and voters are only male -Suffrage supporters don’t get married as they couldn’t own their own property or make legal contracts for themselves as married women

National Woman Suffrage Association is created -Fought for 19th amendment and other women’s rights

Woman Suffrage Amendment proposed in U.S. Congress

First vote on women’s suffrage is debated in the Senate

National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed to focus on suffrage at state level

19th amendment ratified

Civil War labor shortage stopped suffragist movement -women had to fill men’s roles

Progressive Era -Women enter public life and get more roles -Woman suffrage debate enters mainstream politics