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Women's Suffrage 1900-1920
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1903
1910
Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Door, and Leonora Riley create the Women's Trade Union League of New York. It goal was to unify working women and woman suffrage.
1911
Washington State adopts woman suffrage
The Women's Political Union creates the first suffrage parade in New York City.
A group led by Mrs. Arthur Dodge created the National Assocaition Opposed to Woman Suffrage. It was made up of wealthy, influential women, Catholic clergyment, urban political machines, corporate capitalists, distillers and brewers, and Southern Congressmen.
1912
Woman Suffrage 1900-1920
Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party picks up Woman Suffrage as one of their promises to voters.
20,000 suffragettes join the New York suffrage parade.
Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona adopt Woman Suffrage.
1913
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns create the Congressional Union. Their ideas were based on the Women's Social and Political Union in England. The WSPU was known for its radical strategies.
1914
Nevada and Montana adopt woman suffrage.
The National Federation had over two million members .
1915
Mabel and Sara Bard went on a transcontinental tour with a petition. They got over 500,000 signatures.
Another NYC suffrage parades is organized with 40,000 people marching. They wore white and carried cards with their states.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts reject woman suffrage.
1916
Jeanette Rankin from Montanta was elected as the first woman to be a Representative in the House of Representatives.
The Congressional Union changed its name to the National Women's Party.
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1917
New York adopts woman suffrage.
Arkansas allowed women to vote in primary elections
National Woman's Party held banners infront of the White house stating "Mr. President, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage?" and "How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?"
Jeannette Rankin was formally seated in the US House of Representatives
Alice Paul was put in solitary confinment in the mental ward of the prison because she was holding hunger strikes. They put her in the mental ward to break her will and undermine her credibility to the public.
National Woman's Party picketers were arrested and charged for obstructing sidewalfk traffic. They were sentenced to six months in jaul.
The goverment released the picketers because of public outcry and because they could not stop the women from having hunger strikes in jail.
1918
Representative Rankin create a debate on suffrage amendment in the House. The amendment passes, but fails to win two thirds majority in the senate.
Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma adopt woman suffrage.
President Woodrow Wilson endorses federal woman suffrage amendment.
President Wilson addresses the Senate about adopting woman suffrage after World War I.
1919
The Nineteenth Amendment is passed allowing women the right to vote.
1920
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The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.