https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3 History class womens rights timeline en-us 2022-04-28 19:21:09 UTC 2022-05-02 18:45:24 UTC hello@padlet.com hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163227858 As an unmarried woman with property, and serving as the lawyer for Lord Baltimore, Margaret Brent demands but is denied a vote in Maryland’s colonial assembly.]]> 2022-04-28 19:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163227858 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163229543 The New Jersey legislature limits the vote to “free, white, male citizens” as a means of favoring the party in power.

]]> 2022-04-28 19:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163229543 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163230168 Kentucky passes a statewide woman suffrage law that grants the vote to female heads of household in elections deciding on taxes and schools.

]]> 2022-04-28 19:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163230168 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163231155 A Michigan Senate committee proposes that the state adopt universal suffrage. The proposal dies in committee because woman suffrage is viewed as “unusual” and “needless.”

]]> 2022-04-28 19:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163231155 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163233101 Sojourner Truth gives her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at a Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.


]]> 2022-04-28 19:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163233101 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163234111 The First National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts. Almost 1,000 men and women from eleven states (including California) attend.]]> 2022-04-28 19:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163234111 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163236102 The Fourteenth Amendment is adopted. It defines who is a citizen of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Women, therefore, are citizens (unless part of a group excluded from this amendment). After this, questions of what rights and responsibilities come with citizenship are debated.]]> 2022-04-28 19:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163236102 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163237000 Iowa citizens vote to remove “white” from the state constitution’s description of who could vote. This gives Black and Native American men the vote by law (though not necessarily in practice).

]]> 2022-04-28 19:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163237000 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163238099 The Fifteenth Amendment becomes law. It prohibits exclusion from voting “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” In response, many former Confederate states pass Jim Crow laws that disenfranchise Black and poor white men from voting through poll taxes, literacy tests, and other restrictions.]]> 2022-04-28 19:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163238099 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163244529 In St. Louis, Missouri, Virginia Minor is not allowed to register to vote. She and her husband sue. The case is eventually decided by the US Supreme Court, who issue their decision in 1875.]]> 2022-04-28 19:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163244529 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163245863 Susan B. Anthony is one of several women in Rochester, New York to vote in the presidential election. Anthony is arrested and charged with voting illegally. Her case is heard by a federal court, who issue their decision in 1873. The other women who voted are arrested but not charged. The election inspectors who allowed the women to vote are arrested and found guilty. President Ulysses S. Grant pardons them after they are jailed for refusing to pay their fines.]]> 2022-04-28 19:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163245863 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163247653 The Equal Rights Amendment, originally drafted by Alice Paul in the 1920s, passes the United States House of Representatives. It is not brought to a vote in the US Senate.]]> 2022-04-28 19:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163247653 hsaw170 https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163249797 The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 19th Amendment legislation]]> 2022-04-28 19:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hsaw170/k349ykrxju82heq3/wish/2163249797