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1848
The first ever women's rights convention, commonly known as “The…
1848
The first ever women's rights convention, commonly known as “The seneca falls convention” was held in New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote The Declaration of Sentiments.
1849
The first state constitution in California provided women with property rights.
1850
Frederick Douglass, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth attend the first national women's rights convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. An alliance was formed with the Abolitionist Movement.
1851
The second National Women's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Participants included Horace Mann, Elizabeth Oaks Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers.
1852
The major issue of women's property rights were presented to the vermont state by Clara Howard Nichols.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published and quickly became a bestseller.
1853
Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony, were not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City.
1861-1865
Throughout the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement came to a halt. The women involved put their energy toward the war.
1868
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury published the first edition of The Revolution. This included the famous line “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less!”
In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election.
Senator S.C. Pomeroy introduced the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in Congress.
1869
Conservative activists, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe formed the Boston based American Woman Suffrage Association (commonly known as AWSA) to work for woman suffrage through amending individual state constitutions.
1870
The Woman’s Journal was founded and edited by Mary Livermore, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell.
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