Votes for Women State by State Timeline

1776: New Jersey gives the vote to women owning more than $250. Later the state reconsidered and women were no longer allowed to vote.
1837: Kentucky gives some women suffrage in school elections.
1861: Kansas enters the Union; the new state gives its women the right to vote in local school elections.
1869: Wyoming territory constitution grants women the right to vote and to hold public office.
1870: Utah territory gives full suffrage to women.
1893: The male electorate in Colorado votes "yes" on woman suffrage.
1894: Some cities in Kentucky and Ohio give women the vote in school board elections.
1895: Utah amends its constitution to grant women suffrage.
1896: Idaho adopts a constitutional amendment granting suffrage to women.
1902: Kentucky repeals limited school board election voting rights for women.
1910: Washington state votes for woman suffrage.
1911: California gives women the vote.
1912: Male electorates in Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona approve state constitutional amendments for woman suffrage. Wisconsin defeats a proposed suffrage amendment.
1912: Kentucky restores limited voting rights for women in school board elections.
1920: On August 26, a constitutional amendment is adopted when Tennessee ratifies it, granting full woman suffrage in all states of the United States.
1929: Puerto Rico's legislature grants women the right to vote, pushed by the United States Congress to do so.
1971: The United States lowers the voting age for both men and women to eighteen

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrageoverview/a/timeline_us.htm

Women Vote

During the period of Women Suffrage women’s weren't allowed to vote. After several years of trying to win this battle votes for women were finally proposed in the United States in July, 1848. This happen at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by two important women’s who took part of this Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant alive who still attended in the 1848 Convention able to vote. She was nineteen year old at the time when she first attended that Convention. Though she was apparently too ill to actually cast a ballot.

During the World War I women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war. After the war the National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took more opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. A couple of battles for woman suffrage were won state-by-state by the early 20th century.  Thousands of woman’s took part in this. In August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment of the US Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an social activist and a leading figure of the early Woman Rights Movement. She was born in November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, She was the eighth child of 11 children. Elizabeth Cady was the daughter of Daniel Cady, a lawyer and politician. She studied law under her father, who later became a New York Supreme Court judge. During this period she became a strong advocate of women's rights.

In 1840 Elizabeth married the lawyer, Henry Bewster Stanton. Later that year, Stanton and Lucretia Mott, travelled to London to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Both women were furious when they were refused permission to speak at the meeting. Stanton later recalled: "We resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home, and form a society to advocate the rights of women." Stanton and Lucretia Mott organised the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848. It was the first Women Rights Convention. Stanton's recalled that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed. This became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years.

In 1866 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone established the American Equal Rights Association. A year after the organisation became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote but both ideas were rejected. A new organisation was formed called the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). This organisation condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. The NWSA also advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.

Another group, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), was also active in the campaign for women's rights and by the 1880s. After several years of negotiations, both groups merged in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was elected as NAWSA first president but was replaced by Susan B. Anthony in 1892. Elizabeth died in New York, on 26th October, 1902.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWstanton.htm

Women's RIghts in Marriage

Throughout history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's significant professions. Resulting a stereotype that "a woman's place is in the home". Young girls tended to learn from her mother's example of cooking, cleaning, and caring for children because it was the behavior expected of her when she grew up. Neither the young girls families or their teachers expected them to prepare for a future other than marriage and motherhood.

Since Womens had a lack of education they were expected to marry in order to find someone to support them since they did not have the knowledge to do many jobs. This lead into the social and financial pressures that a women should get married. Most women were often married because girls parents would often search for a man who would be wealthy have a title and could advance their social status. A married woman, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband's control. Women's were legally defenseless to object on their Husbands opinions. Once there Husbands went off to work they expected their wives to do all the things their mothers had done for them. Cook, clean take care of the kids and always look like a doll all at the same time.

http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/marriage.shtml

Women in Reform Movements

Women in the United States during the 19th century participated in a lot of reform movements to improve education, to initiate prison reform, to ban alcoholic drinks, and, during the pre-Civil War period, to free the slaves. A group of Women started Organization all about Women rights. Women's suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the same right to vote as men. Many Women who began to  participate in reform movements started to also find interest in politics.





http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm
http://www.42explore2.com/suffrage.htm

Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage campaign began in the decades before the civil war started. During the 1820s and 30s all kinds of groups were all over the US religious movements, anti-slavery organizations and more. In many of these groups women played a prominent role. Many American women were starting to be against what historians called the "Cult of True Womanhood" which ment that a true woman was a wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family. All of these contributed a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a woman in the United States.

During 1848 a group of activists, mostly women gathered in Seneca Palls in NY to discuss the problem of women's rights. Most of the delegates agreed American women were individuals who deserved their own rights. The Declaration of Sentiments produced "that all men and women are created equal","That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

What this also meant was that they believed women should have the right to vote.

In 1910, A couple of states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. In 1923, the National Women's Party proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all discrimination on the basis of sex. Thats called Equal Rights Amendment.

http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage