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Womens sufferage
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Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote.
1787
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US Constitutional Convention places voting in the hands of the states.
Women lose the right to vote in New Jersey.
1807
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New Jersey was the last state to revoke the right.
First Women's Rights Convention
1848
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It was hosted in Seneca Fall, New York, where Elizabeth Cady Staton spoke of equal sufferage.
First National Women's Rights convention.
1850
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It was held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Women put aside sufferage activities to help with the war effort.
1861 - 1865
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This was during the Civil War. Over Susan B Anthony's objections woman put all sufferage activities to the side.
Susan B Anthony forms the Equal Rights Assosiaction.
1867
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This was the same time the fourteenth amendment was passed. Anthony started this to recieve universal sufferage.
New Jersey Women!
1868
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172 women from New Jersey attempt to vite, but their ballots are ignored.
Women petition!
1868
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Fifteenth amendment is passed, giving black people the right to vote. Women petition to be included in this, but they are turned down.
Wyoming territory grants first woman suffrage
1869
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Utah territory grants woman suffrage
1870
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Decleration for the rights of women.
1876
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Susan B. Anthony reads this in front of the Liberty Bell.
US Congress!
1878
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The Woman suffrage amendment is introduced in US Congress for the first time.
Susan B Anthony
1906
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Susan B Anthony dies.
Nineteenth Amendment
1920
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The Susan B. Anthony Amendment is ratified by Tennessee on August 18. It becomes law on August 26.