Timeline


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 * 1776-** New Jersey lets women vote, but only if they have $250. This lasted only a short period before the state took that privilege away.


 * 1837-** Kentucky let women have a say in some school elections.


 * 1848-** First women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York


 * 1850-** First National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Mass. This attracted more than 1,000 people


 * 1861-** Kansas territory gives women the right for women to vote in local school elections.


 * 1869-** Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton make the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Its goal was for women to have the right to vote.


 * 1869-** Wyoming territory lets women vote and hold a position in public office.


 * 1870-** Utah territory lets women vote and hold a position in public office.


 * 1890-** The AWSA joins the NWSA, creating the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)


 * 1893-** Colorado is the first state to allow women to vote.


 * 1894-** After Kentucky and Utah become official states, they then give women the right to vote in school elections.


 * 1895-** Utah gives full voting privileges to women.


 * 1902-** Kentucky took away voting in schools for women's.


 * 1903-** National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is established to advocate for better work conditions for women.


 * 1910-** Washington state allows women to vote.


 * 1911-** California lets women vote.


 * 1912-** Michigan, Kansas, Oregon, and Arizona let women vote.


 * 1912-** Kentucky restores its school voting for women.


 * 1913-** Alice Paul and Lucy Burns create the Congressional Union to try and pass an amendment that states women may be allowed to vote. Later it is renamed as the "National Women's Party."


 * 1916-** Margaret Sanger opens up a birth control clinic in New York.


 * 1920-** August 26, a constitutional amendment (19th) is adopted when Tennessee ratified it, granting full women's suffrage in all states.


 * 1923-** Margaret Sanger opens up another birth control clinic in New York.


 * 1971-** Voting age for women and men is is lowered to the age of 18.

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