2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
•helped organize the 1848 Seneca
Falls convention
• where she insisted on leading in a
demand for the vote for women
•Opposed by her own husband
• Stanton worked closely with Susan
B. Anthony
•wrote many speeches which
Anthony traveled to deliver.
“Because man and woman are the complement of one another,
we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe
and stable government.”
3. Susan B. Anthony
•Denied the right to speak at
the temperance meeting
(Albany, 1852)
•She organized the Woman's
New York State Temperance
Society
•Early Civil War era
organized, Women’s National
Loyal League
•Later fought to have the
14th
amendment say “negro”
and women’s suffrage
4. Lucretia Mott
•Created (with E.C. Stanton) the
Senaca Falls convention
•Opened her home as part of the
Underground Railroad during the
Civil War
•Was one of the first women to
campaign for women’s rights and
suffrage
•Organized many groups and
conventions for the woman’s
movement
5. 1840s- 1900
1848- Senaca Falls Convention formed by E.C.
Stanton & L. Mott
1850 First National Women’s Rights Convention
1869- National Women’s Suffrage Association
formed to achieve voting rights, formed by E.C.
Stanton & S.B. Anthony
-Wyoming territory passes first women’s
suffrage law
1893- Colorado is the first state to adopt an
amendment allowing women the right to vote
6. 1900-1920
• 1903-National Women’s Trade Union league
established- advocated improved wages and
working conditions
• 1916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control
clinic in U.S., closed 10 days later and she is
arrested
• By 1918 Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas,
Arizona, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New
York, Michigan, S. Dakota and Oklahoma allow
women to vote.
• 1920-Dept. of Labor forms “Women’s Bureau”
7. 19th
Amendment
• “The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any State on
account of sex. Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation”
Meaning…
WOMEN CAN
FINALLY VOTE!!
8. 1921-1965
• 1923- Margaret Sanger’s second clinic opens with
support of federal courts
• 1936-Mail information about contraceptives is no
longer considered ‘obscene’, mandate by federal
law
• 1960-FDA approves birth control pill
• 1963-Betty Friedan publishes the Feminine
Mystique
– Congress also passes Equal Pay Act
• 1964-Title VII of Civil Rights Act passes- bars
discrimination of employment based on race or sex
9. 1965-current
• 1965-Supreme Court strikes down the last
state law banning use of contraceptives by
married couples
• 1966- National Organization for Women
(NOW) formed
• 1967-affirmative action expanded to cover
discrimination based on gender
• 1972-Supreme Court rules that right to
privacy act includes an unmarried person’s
right to use contraceptives
10. 1965 to current
• 1972-Title IX of Education Amendment
bans sex discrimination in schools
• 1973-Roe v. Wade
• 1986-Supreme Court rules sexual
harassment is a form of illegal job
discrimination
• 1994-Violence against women act tightens
federal penalties for sex offenders, funds
services for rape & domestic violence
victims
