Timeline of Women's Suffrage

1777-1787: Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote.
1792: A woman named Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a book called "Vindication of the Rights
Of Women".
1848: First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York.
1861-1865: Even though Susan B. Anthony disagrees, women decide to help the war
efforts during the Civil War.
1867: Fourteenth Amendment passes Congress.
1868: Fourteenth Amendment ratifies and Fifteenth Amendment passes Congress.
1871: The Anti-Suffrage Society forms.
1872: Susan B. Anthony gets arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women pay
$500 bail. Susan pays $1000 bail.
1876: On July 4Th, in Philadelphia Susan B. Anthony reads the Declaration for the Rights of
Women from the Liberty Bell.
1878: Women Suffrage amendment passes through Congress.
1884: Surprisingly, a woman named Belva Lockwood runs for president.
1906: Susan Brownell Anthony dies.
1913: The women suffrage parade gets attacked by a mob.
1920: The Nineteenth Amendment called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment gets ratified. It
becomes law on August 26.