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1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. Contents 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1980s
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in ...
Timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska; Timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama; Timeline of women's suffrage in Arizona; Timeline of women's suffrage in Arkansas; C.
Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries; Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States; Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) List of the first female holders of political offices in Europe; List of the first female members of parliament by country; List of suffragists and suffragettes
The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. [3]
The American women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention; many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement. The movement reorganized after the Civil War, gaining experienced campaigners, many of whom had worked for prohibition in the Women's Christian Temperance Union .
The suffrage movement was a broad one, made up of women and men with a wide range of views. In terms of diversity, the greatest achievement of the 20th-century woman suffrage movement was its extremely broad class base. [48]