How everything started...

Once upon a time, in American lands, a group of women decided to finish with this disgraceful situation: 

-No right to vote
-No freedom of speech
-No equality between men and women

It took several years to change the mentality of society and stand out the role of women.

Do you want to know how everything started more detailed? We are going to focus on the most important dates of the suffragist movement in America. 

1848
Beginning of the U.S. women's movement with the creation of the Seneca Falls Convention, in Seneca Falls (New York), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Their goal was to "discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of woman".

1861-1865
The American Civil War took place and brought the end to the National Women's Rights Convention. 

1867
The American Equal Rights Association was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony which included the suffrage for both white and black women. 

1869
The suffrage movement was divided into two movements. On the one side, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), that was set up by Stanton and Anthony in order to secure woman suffrage. On the other side, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was formed by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell and Julia Ward Howe who also wanted the black suffrage. 


1871
The Anti-Suffrage Society was established.

1890

The NWSA and the AWSA joined to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The first president was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

1910

Washington gave women the right to vote. We can see in the video provided a Woman suffrage parade in Washington D.C on March 3, 1913.

1912  

T. Roosevelt's Progressive Party was the first party that included women suffrage in its platform. 

November 7, 1916

Jeannette Rankin: The first female member of Congress elected.

August 26, 1920

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved giving all American women the right to vote. 

The following years brought progress and improvements. Even today, the USA is fighting for equality. 

These are the links we are used if you want to have more information about this:

http://www.sewallbelmont.org/learn/womens-history-in-the-u-s/
http://blog.goldieblox.com/2015/11/votes-for-women-a-short-history-of-suffrage-in-the-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

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