Ameilia Jenks Bloomer
Cupertino King s Daughters Society and children in front of the Interurban Rail car before departure to Congress Springs Resort, circa 1910. Courtesy of Mabel (Williams) Noonan.
1850
September 9, California admitted to the Union.
1851
Amelia Jenks Bloomer introduces her bloomer trousers for women, a trend not readily accepted by many suffrage advocates.
1867
Fourteenth Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution, defining citizens as male.
1867
Susan B. Anthony forms the Equal Rights Assocition to promote universal suffrage.
1869
The first woman suffrage law in the U.S. is passed in the territory of Wyoming.
1869
National Woman’s Suffrage Association (after 1920 known as the League of Women Voters) established.
1870s
(circa) Temple Sisterhood established.
1870
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution enfranchises black men.
1873
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union established.
1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
1853
Antoinette Brown is the first u.S. woman ordained as a minister in a Protestant denomination.
1880
Former slave Sojourner Truth delivers her spellbinding “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in Akron, Ohio.
1870
First Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments, calling for the end to discrimination against women, is signed by three hundred women and men.
1851
1860
1848
1850
1840
Susan B. Anthony
1880
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, San José Chapter, established.
1887
The King’s Daughters Society established.
1888
Modern bicycle is invented with a light frame and two equal-sized wheels. More than a million American women will own and ride bicycles during the next decade, causing Susan B. Anthony to comment in 1896 that “Bicycling has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world.”
1894
San José Woman’s Club established.
1897
Los Gatos history Club established.
1898
The History of the Woman’s Club Movement in America, by Jane Croly published.
1903
Young Woman’s Club (later called ToKalon Club) established.
1903
The national Women’s Trade Union League is formed to bring public attention to the concerns of women workers.
1904
Santa Clara Woman’s Club established.
1904
Mountain View Woman’s Club established.
190?
Garden City Woman’s Club established. Viola Poland, founder of the Mountain View Woman’s Club.
1911
California extends the right to vote to women.
1919
The House of Representatives passes the woman suffrage amendment, 304 to 89; the Senate passes it with just two votes to spare, 56 to 25.
Carrie Chapman Catt
1920
Wyoming is the first state to grant women the right to vote in all elections.
The Women’s Convention is formed, becoming the largest black women’s organization.
1910
1890
1900
National Woman Suffrage Association and American woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, becoming the movement’s mainstream organization.
1900
1890
1890
1920
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, declaring “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
1920
Carrie Chapman Catt founds the League of Women Voters to educate the newly enfranchised voters about the issues.