Equality - Women's Rights

Held in Seneca Falls, New York, This meeting was the beginning of the movement to end the segregation of women. Along with 68 women, 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments, a document meant to end female discrimination.

Elizabeth Blackwell received a medical degree from the Geneva College in New York. She then became the first woman to legally practice medicine in the United States.

California allows women to have rights over property.

Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony are denied the right to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City.

The American Equal Rights Association is created by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to end women's suffrage.

The first edition of "the Revolution" is published by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury of the American Equal Rights Association.

During the presidential election, 172 women in Vineland, New Jersey made a separate ballot box and cast their ballots.

Annie Wittenmyer founds the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, an organization that became one of the strongest fighters for the women's rights movement.

The Progressive Era begins, and more people start to take women's rights more seriously.

Idaho and Utah fully support suffrage. The Women's Trade Union League of New York is formed by Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly and other women' rights activists.