Timeline of Women's Rights
Vistas English III A 2014
1769
women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings. By 1900, every state will have passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act.
1840
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met at the world Anti-Slavery in London and came up with the idea of the possibility of a womens right convention.
July 14, 1840
Elizabeth Cady and Lucretia Mott met in Seneca Falls to discuss the social, civil, and religous condition and rights of women publicly.
1872
Victoria Caflin Woodhull is the first woman to run for president of the United States.
1874
The Court rejects the claim by Virginia Minor that the state law deprives her of one of the “privileges or immunities” of citizenship in violation of the 14th Amendment.
2000
Hillary Rodman becomes the only First Lady eve elected to the United States Senate.
1840
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, dress reformer, and editor, omits the word obey from her marriage vow.