Timeline of Women's Rights
Vista English 3A 2014
In 1838
Mount Holyoke College is established in Massachusetts as first college for women.
In 1840
During a social visit on July 14, Stanton, Mott, Wright, and Mary Ann McClintock and Jane Hunt decided that it was time “to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman”.
In 1848
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19-20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.
In 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, sign the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, modeled on the Declaration of Independence.
In 1849
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in U.S.
In 1920
Seventy-two years after the Seneca Falls Convention, the 19th Amendment, which gives women the right to vote, is ratified.