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Timeline of the American suffrage movement and key figures
A chronological summary traces Amelia Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton influence, Seneca Falls, and the rise of suffrage organizations. It notes 1866 founding of the American Equal Rights Association, 1869 Wyoming grant of unrestricted suffrage, 1870s NAWSA and AWSA split, 1872 Susan B. Anthony voting arrest, and 1890 NAWSA formation, with regional milestones across Texas, Utah, Wyoming, and New York.
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Amelia Bloomer
Seneca Falls
The
Lily
Bloomer
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Equal Rights Association
Lucy Stone
New York State
Kansas
Texas
Burleson County
Titus H. Mundine
Mundine
House
State Affairs Committee
Territory
Wyoming
National Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association
NWSA
Julia Ward Howe
Thomas W. Higginson
AWSA
Republican Party
Utah Territory
Victoria Woodhull
Judiciary Committee of
House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Rochester
New York
U.S
United States
Equal Rights Party
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Jenny Bland Beauchamp
Mariana Thompson Folson
Temperance Union
U.S. House
Washington Territory
US. House of Representatives
Utah
Supreme Court
Rhode Island
National American Woman Suffrage Association
South Dakota
NAWSA
Rebecca Henry Hays
Galveston
Hays
Texas Equal Rights Association
Dallas
Colorado
New York State Association
Elizabeth Good Houston
Andrew Jackson Houston
Texas Nawsa