Women's+Rights

=A women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Emma Willard was designing a school and got $4,000. That got women one step closer to voting. John Adams was the second presedent of the U.S.A. And his wife Abigail Adams wrote him a letter about [dont forget the women].He looked at it and forgot about it. The next day his wife sent him another letter and when he ignored it she sent him another and another and another and another until he gave up. And let women vote in some electons but not for presidents. Then one day he decided that women could vote in the next presedents election. So they did, and the person they voted for almost won. This was a call out to the men, they had under estimated the power of the women. And women lost the right to vote. Eventualy women won back the right to vote. Because someone rememberd the ladies. The women could vote. In 1919 Congress finally agreed and passed the nineteenth amendment to the constitution. It stated that: The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of the gender of a person. Susan B. Anthony was important because of her great speeches for women's rights. She led the National Women's suffrage association. Lucretia Mott was also Important for her speeches in the 1800. She also was an abolitionist. She had started making an anti-slavery organization and then supported women's rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was important in woman's rights because of her speeches and how hard for woman's rights. She was also active in the antislavery convention she worked for women's rights. She was also active in the antislavery conventions. Wyoming was an important place because it was the first state to let women vote. That was in 1889.It happened when a women was about to move to Wyoming was impressed with a speech Susan B. Anthony gave in Peru Illinois. California was also an important state because it allowed women to vote early. The state also won an award as a women’s suffrage state. The White house was important because it was were women picketed. They were bothered by crowds. Also some women were arrested.  Important Events or Information . It was important when 16 women including Susan B. Anthony voted illegally on Thanksgiving Day. She had received an 100 dollar fine but never paid it. In 1920 The Nineteenth amendment becomes law. It gave woman the right to vote. It was also the Anthony amendment named after Susan B. Anthony. It was important when the WCYU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union the Trades union started supporting women’s rights. The WCTU wanted an amendment prohibiting the manufacturing and sale of alcohol. In the early 1800 women could not keep their earnings or their property. Their husbands or fathers got all of that money. Also they got the property. _ =

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The Constitution: The 19th Amendment

August 1995 marked the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution. The amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920. Between 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women worked tirelessly, but strategies for achieving their goal varied. Some pursued a strategy of passing suffrage acts in each state--nine western states adopted woman suffrage legislation by 1912. Others challenged male-only voting laws in the courts. Militant suffragists used tactics such as parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. Often supporters met fierce resistance. Opponents heckled, jailed, and sometimes physically abused them. By 1916, almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment. When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917 and President Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift. On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate followed. When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920, changing the face of the American electorate forever.Many people helped support the womans rights such as Rosa Parks and Herriet Tubman!
 * [[image:http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/amendment_19_thumb.jpg width="190" height="240" caption="House Joint Resolution 1 proposing the 19th amendment to the states" link="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/amendment_19.gif"]] ||
 * House Joint Resolution 1 proposing the 19th amendment to the states ||
 * [[image:http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/ny_suffrage_parade_thumb.jpg width="238" height="180" caption="Suffrage Parade, New York City, ca. 1912" link="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/ny_suffrage_parade.jpg"]] ||
 * Suffrage Parade, New York City, ca. 1912 ||
 * [[image:http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/kaiser_wilson_thumb.jpg width="154" height="194" caption="Kaiser Wilson Poster: Poster Reads: Kaiser Wilson. Have you forgotten your sympathy with the poor Germans because they were not Self-Governed? Twenty-million American Women are not self-governed. Take the beam out of your own eye." link="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/amendment_19/images/kaiser_wilson.gif"]] ||
 * Kaiser Wilson Poster: Poster Reads: Kaiser Wilson. Have you forgotten your sympathy with the poor Germans because they were not Self-Governed? Twenty-million American Women are not self-governed. Take the beam out of your own eye. ||

**Time Line**
[|Top] || [|Susan B. Anthony]and [|Elizabeth Cady Stanton]form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional [|amendment]to the [|Constitution]. Nov. [|Lucy Stone], [|Henry Blackwell], and others form the American Woman Suffrage Association. This group focuses exclusively on gaining [|voting rights for women]through amendments to individual state constitutions. Dec. 10 The territory of [|Wyoming]passes the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory. || [|Top] || Aug. 26 The 19th [|Amendment to the Constitution,]granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State [|Bainbridge Colby]. [|Top] || Many woman could not do anything. They could not vote. There were two woman who went to Senca Falls convetion but when they got there woman were not aloud to go in. click next to see slide show The womans are like African Amricans because womans Fight for there indipendece like the African Amercans did
 * 1848 || The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men sign a [|Declaration of Sentiments,]which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. ||
 * 1850 || The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in [|Worcester, Mass.,]attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions are held yearly (except for 1857) through 1860.
 * 1869 || May
 * 1890 || The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. ||
 * 1893 || [|Colorado]is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote. [|Utah]and [|Idaho]follow suit in 1896, [|Washington]State in 1910, [|California]in 1911, [|Oregon,][|Kansas,]and [|Arizona]in 1912, [|Alaska]and [|Illinois]in 1913, [|Montana]and [|Nevada]in 1914, [|New York]in 1917; [|Michigan,][|South Dakota,]and [|Oklahoma]in 1918. ||
 * 1896 || The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs. Leaders in the black women's club movement include Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, [|Mary Church Terrell,]and Anna Julia Cooper.
 * 1903 || The National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is established to advocate for improved wages and working conditions for women. ||
 * 1913 || [|Alice Paul]and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union to work toward the passage of a federal amendment to give women the vote. The group is later renamed the National Women's Party. Members picket the [|White House]and practice other forms of civil disobedience. ||
 * 1916 || [|Margaret Sanger]opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in [|New York City]in 1923. ||
 * 1919 || The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally written by [|Susan B. Anthony]and introduced in [|Congress]in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification. ||
 * 1920 || The Women's Bureau of the [|Department of Labor]is formed to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women.
 * Important people for womans Rights**

=**Links and information by google**= =Previous1 of **12** [|Next]The Path of the Women's Rights Movement=

A Timeline of the Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1998
1873 Bradwell v. Illinois: Supreme Court affirms that states can restrict women from the practice of any profession to uphold the law of the Creator. Discover the key events of the women's rights movement in the United States. This timeline covers the years of 1848 to 1920, which includes the famed women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. || Women's Rights is amazing for me.
 * || **1848**The world's first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY, July 19-20. A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is debated and signed by 68 women and 32 men, setting the agenda for the women's rights movement that followed.
 * 1849** Elizabeth Smith Miller appears on the streets of Seneca Falls, NY, in "turkish trousers," soon to be known as "bloomers."
 * 1849** Amelia Jenks Bloomer publishes and edits Lily the first prominent women's rights newspaper.
 * 1850** Quaker physicians establish the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, PA to give women a chance to learn medicine. The first women graduated under police guard.
 * 1855** Lucy Stone becomes first woman on record to keep her own name after marriage, setting a trend among women who are consequently known as "Lucy Stoners."
 * 1855** The University of Iowa becomes the first state school to admit women.
 * 1855** In Missouri v. Celia, a Black slave is declared property without right to defense against a master's act of rape.
 * 1859** American Medical Association announces opposition to abortion. In 1860, Connecticut is the first state to prohibit all abortions, both before and after quickening.
 * 1859** The birth rate continues its downward spiral as reliable condoms become available. By the late 1900s, women will raise an average of only two or three children.
 * 1860** Of 2,225,086 Black women, 1,971,135 are held in slavery. In San Francisco, about 85% of Chinese women are essentially enslaved as prostitutes.
 * 1866** 14th Amendment is passed by Congress (ratified by the states in 1868), the first time "citizens" and "voters" are defined as "male" in the Constitution.
 * 1866** The American Equal Rights Association is founded, the first organization in the US to advocate women's suffrage.
 * 1868** The National Labor Union supports equal pay for equal work.
 * 1868** Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony begin publishing The Revolution, an important women's movement periodical.
 * 1870** For the first time in the history of jurisprudence, women serve on juries in the Wyoming Territory.
 * 1870** Iowa is the first state to admit a woman to the bar: Arabella Mansfield.
 * 1870** The 15th Amendment receives final ratification. By its text, women are not specifically excluded from the vote. During the next two years, approximately 150 women will attempt to vote in almost a dozen different jurisdictions from Delaware to California.
 * 1872** Through the efforts of lawyer Belva Lockwood, Congress passes a law to give women federal employees equal pay for equal work.
 * 1872** Charlotte E. Ray, Howard University law school graduate, becomes first African-American woman admitted to the US bar.
 * 1873** Congress passes the Comstock Law, defining contraceptive information as "obscene material."
 * 1877** Helen Magill is the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at a US school, a doctorate in Greek from Boston University.
 * 1878** The Susan B. Anthony Amendment, to grant women the vote, is first introduced in the US Congress.
 * 1884** Belva Lockwood, presidential candidate of the National Equal Rights Party, is the first woman to receive votes in a presidential election (appx. 4,000 in six states).
 * 1887** For the first and only time in this century, the US Senate votes on woman suffrage. It loses, 34 to 16. Twenty-five Senators do not bother to participate.
 * 1899** National Consumers League is formed with Florence Kelley as its president. The League organizes women to use their power as consumers to push for better working conditions and protective laws for women workers.
 * 1900** Two-thirds of divorce cases are initiated by the wife; a century earlier, most women lacked the right to sue and were hopelessly locked into bad marriages.
 * 1909** Women garment workers strike in New York for better wages and working conditions in the Uprising of the 20,000. Over 300 shops eventually sign union contracts.
 * 1912** Juliette Gordon Low founds first American group of Girl Guides, in Atlanta, Georgia. Later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA, the organization brings girls into the outdoors, encourages their self-reliance and resourcefulness, and prepares them for varied roles as adult women.
 * 1913** Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, which later becomes the National Women's Party. Members picket the White House and engage in other forms of civil disobedience, drawing public attention to the suffrage cause.
 * 1914** Margaret Sanger calls for legalization of contraceptives in her new, feminist publication, The Woman Rebel, which the Post Office bans from the mails.
 * 1917** During WWI women move into many jobs working in heavy industry in mining, chemical manufacturing, automobile and railway plants. They also run street cars, conduct trains, direct traffic, and deliver mail.
 * 1917** Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the US Congress.
 * 1919** The House of Representatives passes the women's suffrage amendment, 304 to 89; the Senate passes it with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25.
 * 1921** Margaret Sanger organizes the American Birth Control League, which becomes Federation of Planned Parenthood in 1942.
 * 1923** Supreme Court strikes down a 1918 minimum-wage law for District of Columbia women because, with the vote, women are considered equal to men. This ruling cancels all state minimum wage laws.
 * 1933** Frances Perkins, the first woman in a Presidential cabinet, serves as Secretary of Labor during the entire Roosevelt presidency.
 * 1941** A massive government and industry media campaign persuades women to take jobs during the war. Almost 7 million women respond, 2 million as industrial "Rosie the Riveters" and 400,000 join the military.
 * 1945** Women industrial workers begin to lose their jobs in large numbers to returning service men, although surveys show 80% want to continue working.
 * 1957** The number of women and men voting is approximately equal for the first time.
 * 1960** The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
 * 1960** Women now earn only 60 cents for every dollar earned by men, a decline since 1955. Women of color earn only 42 cents.
 * 1963** The Equal Pay Act, proposed twenty years earlier, establishes equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties. It does not cover domestics, agricultural workers, executives, administrators or professionals.
 * 1963** Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique, detailed the "problem that has no name." Five million copies are sold by 1970, laying the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.
 * 1964** Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employment discrimination by private employers, employment agencies, and unions based on race, sex, and other grounds. To investigate complaints and enforce penalties, it establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which receives 50,000 complaints of gender discrimination in its first five years.
 * 1966** In response to EEOC inaction on employment discrimination complaints, twenty-eight women found the National Organization for Women to function as a civil rights organization for women.
 * 1968** New York Radical Women garner media attention to the women's movement when they protest the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City.
 * 1968** The first national women's liberation conference is held in Chicago.
 * 1968** The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) is founded.
 * 1968** National Welfare Rights Organization is formed by activists such as Johnnie Tillmon and Etta Horm. They have 22,000 members by 1969, but are unable to survive as an organization past 1975.
 * 1968** Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) is first Black woman elected to the US Congress.
 * 1970** Women's wages fall to 59 cents for every dollar earned by men. Although nonwhite women earn even less, the gap is closing between white women and women of color.
 * 1970** The Equal Rights Amendment is reintroduced into Congress.
 * 1973** Billie Jean King scores an enormous victory for female athletes when she beats Bobby Riggs in "The tennis tournament watched by nearly 48,000,000 people."
 * 1973** The first battered women's shelters open in the US, in Tucson, Arizona and St. Paul, Minnesota.
 * 1973** In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to abortion, effectively canceling the anti-abortion laws of 46 states.
 * 1974** MANA, the Mexican-American Women's National Association, organizes as feminist activist organization. By 1990, MANA chapters operate in 16 states; members in 36.
 * 1974** Hundreds of colleges are offering women's studies courses. Additionally, 230 women's centers on college campuses provide support services for women students.
 * 1975** The first women's bank opens, in New York City.
 * 1978** For the first time in history, more women than men enter college.
 * 1981** At the request of women's organizations, President Carter proclaims the first "National Women's History Week," incorporating March 8, International Women's Day.
 * 1981** Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman ever appointed to the US Supreme Court. In 1993, she is joined by Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
 * 1984** Geraldine Ferraro is the first woman vice-presidential candidate of a major political party (Democratic Party).
 * 1990** The number of Black women in elective office has increased from 131 in 1970 to 1,950 in 1990.
 * 1992** Women are now paid 71 cents for every dollar paid to men. The range is from 64 cents for working-class women to 77 cents for professional women with doctorates. Black women earned 65 cents, Latinas 54 cents.
 * 1993** Take Our Daughters to Work Day debuts, designed to build girls self-esteem and open their eyes to a variety of careers.
 * 1996** US women's spectacular success in the Summer Olympics (19 gold medals, 10 silver, 9 bronze) is the result of large numbers of girls and women active in sports since the passage of Title IX.

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