New Jersey grants the vote to "all free inhabitants."
Abolitionists and attend but are barred from participating in the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.They decide to hold a women's rights convention on their return to America.
During the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Stanton authors the , which sets the agenda for decades of women's activism.
A suffragist meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York goes down in history as "The Mob Convention," marred by "hissing, yelling, stamping, and all manner of unseemly interruptions."
Wyoming becomes the first U.S. territory to grant unrestricted suffrage to women.
is appointed the justice of the peace of South Pass City, Wyoming, becoming the first female government official. The 15th Amendment is ratified, but women who go to the polls are turned away.
The Supreme Court rules that the 14th Amendment does not grant women the right to vote.
The first federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced in the United States Congress.
The Supreme Court strikes down the law that enfranchised women in the Washington territory. Congress denies women in Utah their right to vote.
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.
The Senate votes on the " amendment, which states that no citizen should be denied the right to vote on account of sex, but it does not pass.
of Montana becomes the first American woman elected to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Arkansas legislature's decision to grant women the right to vote in primary, but not general elections results in giving the vote to white women to the exclusion of black women.
President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the 19th Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes.
For a third time, the House votes to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passes the 19th Amendment.
Three quarters of state legislatures ratify the 19th Amendment on 26 August. American women win full voting rights.
The National Woman's Party proposes the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate gender-based discrimination. It has never been ratified.