timeline

History of women's right:

1776- John Adams wife wrote a letter to him, asking what Thomas Jefferson means when he wrote ‘‘all men are equal''.

1777- Women lost the right to vote in New York

1780- 3 years later, women lost the right to vote in Massachusetts

1784- Hampshire thinks that women shouldn't be voting, so, Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire.

1787- The US Constitutional Convention place voted that all state shouldn’t let any women vote except New Jersey

1807- Women lost their right to vote in New Jersey

1861-1865- women were not suppose do their suffrage activities, and was sent to help the solider, in the civil war

1868- the fourteenth amendment was passed out, and was giving the right to vote for the black men, but not for the women.

1872- The women that fight, for the women's right were arrested for voting. 12 women were held for $500 bail. Susan B. Anthony was held for $1000 bail.

1876- Anthony was let out of the jail, and she reads the Declaration for the Rights of Women
in front of the liberty bell. Crowds of people were cheering for her!

1878-Woman suffrage amendment was introduce to the U.S congress

1887- Soon, in Utah, women lose the right to vote

1902- Elizabeth Cady Standon died, and didn't live to see women's suffrage in the United States.

1906- Susan B. Anthony died in the age of 86

1916- Alice Paul and her fellow form the National women’s party.

1918- President Wilson who is against women’s right decides to support for suffrage.

1920- The Nineteenth Amendment was passed out and said “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” That means all people have rights to vote.

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