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The World Anti-Slavery Convention
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. This prompts them to hold a Women's Convention in the US. -
Married Women's Property Act
When a woman married she lost any right to control property that was hers prior to the marriage, nor did she have rights to acquire any property during marriage. A married woman could not make contracts, keep or control her own wages or any rents, transfer property, sell property or bring any lawsuit. New York passed this act to grant married women some control over their property and earnings. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
The World's Temperance Convention
Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony, are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City. -
National Woman Suffrage Association
The NWSA was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its founders, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women. -
Wyoming Grants Women Suffrage
Women’s suffrage was nearly nonexistent when William Bright, a saloonkeeper and president of the upper house of the Wyoming Territory, introduced a bill granting all female residents 21 years and older the right to vote. -
Belva Lockwood
Lockwood graduated from law school in Washington, D.C. and became one of the first female lawyers in the United States. In 1879, she successfully petitioned Congress to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first woman attorney given this privilege. Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. -
The National Association of Colored Women
The NACW was formed at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington D.C. by a merger of the National Federation of African-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington D.C. -
National Women's Trade Union League
The WTUL was a organization for better working conditions and higher wages for women. Support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. It played an important role in supporting the massive strikes in the first two decades of the twentieth century that established the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and in campaigning for women's suffrage among men and women workers. -
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
The CUWS was an American organization led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. -
"The Woman Rebel" by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger published "The Woman Rebel", a magazine about contraception, which coins the term 'birth control'. -
Nineteenth Amendment
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.