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Women's suffrage for kids: Famous Women involved in Women's Suffrage
- Suffragettes
The following timeline and fact sheet provides the dates of
important events related to women's rights. A list of famous
American women involved in women's suffrage movements (Suffragette) include:
List of Famous American Women involved in Women's
Suffrage (Suffragette) Elizabeth Cady
Stanton ● Lucretia Mott ● Lucy Stone ● Antoinette Brown
● Paulina Wright Davis ● Abby Kelley Foster
● Sojourner Truth ● Clara Howard Nichols
● Harriet Beecher Stowe ● Susan B. Anthony
● Elizabeth Oaks Smith ● Matilda Joslyn Gage
● Victoria Woodhull ● Abigail Scott Duniway
● Martha Coffin Wright ● Ernestine Rose
● Anna E. Dickinson ● Elizabeth Smith
Miller ● Mary Cheney Greeley ● Mary Livermore ● Alice Paul
● Lucy Burns ● Mabel Vernon ● Sara Bard Field
● Jeannette Rankin ● Louisine
Havemeyer ● Elizabeth Rogers ● Vida Milholland ● Mary Winsor
● Mable Vernon ● Carrie Chapman Catt ●
Women's suffrage for kids: Suffragette Timeline and Fact Sheet
Interesting Women's Suffrage Timeline Facts for kids are detailed below. The
history of Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States is told in
a factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of short facts
providing a simple method of relating the famous women and events
relating to their fight for the right of women to vote.
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Timeline and Facts for kids - Suffragette Movement
Women's suffrage
Timeline Fact 1: 1800: Many
social reform
movements such as the
Anti-Slavery Abolitionist movement and the Women's
suffrage movement were
sparked by the Christian
revivalist movement referred to as the
Second Great Awakening.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 2: 1848: Various women's suffrage
movements had slowly emerged in the United States during
the 1800's but the demand for the enfranchisement of
American women was first seriously formulated during a
Women's rights convention that was held at Seneca Falls
on July 19th and 20th 1848.
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Timeline Fact 3: 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention was
organized by with Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was
supported by a group of female Quakers. Lucretia Mott
was a speaker at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 4: 1848: Important American suffragists
like Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown influenced the
female organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention
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Timeline Fact 5: 1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
presented her Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca
Falls Convention and is credited with initiating the
first organized women's rights and women's suffrage
movements in the United States
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 6: 1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's
Declaration of Sentiments created the agenda of women's
activism for many years in the United States. The
Declaration of Sentiments also included two Resolutions
which protested against man's usurpation of rights
relating to a woman's position in church and to a
woman's role under God.
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Timeline Fact 7: 1849: In 1849, Lucretia Mott
delivered the
Discourse on Woman Speech which discussed the
activities of various women who appear in the Bible
arguing that the Bible supported woman's right to speak
aloud her spiritual beliefs.
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Timeline Fact 8: 1850: The first National Women's
Rights Convention was held at Worcester, Massachusetts
with a strong presence and firm alliance with the
Abolitionist Movement. Suffragists and abolitionists
such as Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, Lucy
Stone and Sojourner Truth all attended the conference.
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Timeline Fact 9: 1851 Sojourner Truth delivered her
famous speech "Ain't
I a Woman?" at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio
in December, 1851
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Timeline Fact 10: 1851: The second National Women's
Rights Convention meets at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Participants include women’s rights activist and New
York Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks Smith
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Timeline Fact 11: 1851: Elizabeth Cady Stanton meets
Susan B. Anthony who becomes her lifelong friend both
working in in the field of women's rights
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 12: 1852:
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by
Harriet Beecher Stowe is
serialized in a
weekly abolitionist
paper called 'The National Era' and published as a novel
in 1852.
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Timeline Fact 13: 1852: Clara Howard Nichols presented
the issue of women's property rights to the Vermont
Senate
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Timeline Fact 14: 1857: The Married Woman’s Property
Bill is passed in Congress that allows women can how
sue, be sued, make contracts, inherit and bequeath
property.
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Timeline Fact 15: 1861 - 1865: The women of the nation
are occupied by the horrors of the Civil War
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Timeline Fact 16: 1866: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony initiated the American Equal Rights
Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both
African Americans and women
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 17: 1868: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony begin publishing a women's rights
newspaper called 'The Revolution'.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 18: 1868: The
14th Amendment regarding Citizenship Rights is
ratified on
July 9, 1868
in which voters are exclusively
referred to as male. This was the first time, an
Amendment added the word "male" into the US Constitution
refer to
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment
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Timeline Fact 19: 1868: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and other like minded suffragists of the
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), refused to
endorse the 14th amendment because it did not give women
the right to vote.
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Timeline Fact 20: 1868: Other suffragists such as Lucy
Stone and Julia Ward Howe, argued that once the black
man was enfranchised, women would achieve their
objective. This group of women created the American
Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which aimed to secure
the vote for women through state legislation.
Continued...
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Women's suffrage for kids: Timeline and Fact Sheet
The history of Women's suffrage is told in a factual sequence consisting of
a series of short facts providing a simple method of relating the
history and events of the Women's suffrage.
Women's
Suffrage
Timeline and Facts for kids - Suffragette Movement
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 21: 1868: The early women's rights
movements therefore split into two and would not merge
until 1890.
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Timeline Fact 22: 1869: Wyoming Governor John Allen
Campbell extended the right to vote to women on December
10, 1869, making Wyoming the first territory and then
U.S. state to grant suffrage to women - Wyoming's
nickname is the "Equality State".
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Timeline Fact 23: 1870: Another
cause for the split was the passing of the
15th Amendment that was
ratified on February
3, 1870 which prohibited the
denial of suffrage because of race, but not because of
gender.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 24: 1870: The Woman's Journal is
established, edited by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and
Mary Livermore. (It will later become the official paper
of the National American Woman Suffrage Association,
when the suffrage organizations merge).
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 25: 1871: Victoria Woodhull addressed the
House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to
vote under the 14th amendment.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 26: 1872: Susan B. Anthony was arrested
for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and
convicted in a widely publicized trial.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 27: 1872: Abigail Scott Duniway, an
American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor ,
influences Oregon politicians to pass laws granting a
married woman’s rights such as starting and running her
own business, control of money earned, and the right to
protect her property if her husband leaves. Abigail
Scott Duniway would later be asked her to write and sign
the equal suffrage proclamation when Oregon became the
7th state in the U.S. to pass a women's suffrage
amendment.
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Timeline Fact 28: 1873: Susan B. Anthony delivers
her
After Being Convicted Of Voting in the 1872 Presidential
Election Speech
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Timeline Fact 29: 1876: Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn
Gage on what grew into the six-volume History of Woman
Suffrage.
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Timeline Fact 30: 1876: Susan B. Anthony and Matilda
Joslyn Gage disrupted the official Centennial program in
Philadelphia, presenting a “Declaration of Rights for
Women” to the Vice President Henry Wilson
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 31: 1878: The 'Susan B. Anthony
Amendment' was introduced to Congress in 1878 by Senator
A.A. Sargent of California and later became the basis of
the
19th amendment to the United States Constitution -
the Women's suffrage amendment.
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Timeline Fact 32: 1882: The Senate appoints a Select
Committee on Woman Suffrage due to pressure from the
Women's Suffrage movements
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 33: 1887: The first vote on woman
suffrage is taken in the Senate on January 25, 1887,
where it is defeated 34 to 16.
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Timeline Fact 34: 1890: The American Woman
Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage
Association merge, becoming the National American Woman
Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA fought for
Women's suffrage during the
Progressive Movement.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 35: 1895: The Woman's Bible, written by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, is
published to challenge the traditional position of
religious orthodoxy that women should be subservient to
men.
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Timeline Fact 36: 1897: Other women opposed suffrage.
The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
was founded in 1897 led by Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Timeline Fact 37:
1910: The first suffrage parade was held in New
York City, organized by the Women's Political Union.
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Timeline Fact 38: 1913: A delegation of suffragists
presented petitions signed by 200,000 Americans to the
Senate
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Timeline Fact 39: 1913: The National Woman's Party was
founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as a support of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association for the
exclusive purpose of securing passage of a federal
amendment
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Timeline Fact 40: 1915: A tour by suffragists, headed
by Mabel Vernon and Sara Bard Field, gather over a
half-million signatures on petitions to put to Congress.
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Timeline Fact 41:
1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first
woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
in Congress on April 2,
1917,
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Timeline Fact 42: 1917: National Woman's Party pickets
cause concern and women are charged with obstructing
traffic. Picketing took place in public places such as
outside the White House
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 43: 1917: Pickets refuse to pay $25 fines
and are sentenced to up to six months in jail. Radical
protests include hunger strikes
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 44: 1917: Alice Paul was one of the
hunger strikers. She had previously met Emmeline
Pankhurst, the founder of the British suffrage movement
who were experiencing the barbaric, harsh treatment of
force feeding hunger strikers
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Timeline Fact 45: 1917: Newspapers printed stories
about the women’s harsh treatment in jail and the
women's rights movement gained sympathy and support.
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 46: 1917: 28 November, 1917: The public
outcry was so fierce that the government unconditionally
released the female pickets. Names of the suffragette
prisoners included Havemeyer, Rogers, Milholland, Winsor,
Mabel Vernon
Women's Suffrage
Timeline Fact 47: 1919 The most prominent National
Woman’s Party suffrage prisoners (including Louisine
Havemeyer, Elizabeth Rogers, Vida Milholland, Mary
Winsor, Mable Vernon) toured the country on a train
called the “Prison Special.” The train's slogan was
"From Prison to People"
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Timeline Fact 48: 1918: President Woodrow Wilson states
his first public support of the federal woman suffrage
amendment on January 9, 1918. The House votes 274 to
136, in favor of a suffrage amendment on January 10,
1918
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Timeline Fact 49: 1919: Carrie Chapman Catt proposed
the formation of a league of women voters to "finish the
fight." at a Convention of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, in St. Louis on March 24, 1919
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Timeline Fact 50: The
19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4,
1919 and the Women's Suffrage Clause, was ratified on
August 18, 1920.
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