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	1769
	Women Have Limited Property Rights

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1769
Women Have Limited Property Rights

The colonies adopt the English system of property ownership for married women as stated by Judge John Wilford Blackstone: “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in the law. The very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated into that of her husband under whose wing and protection she performs everything.” As a result, women cannot own property in their own name nor keep their own earnings.

	1777
	Abigail Adams Writes On Women's Rights

	1848
	First Women's Rights Conference held in Seneca Falls in New York

	1866
	American Equal Rights Association is founded

	1868
	The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified by the States

	1869
	National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association founded

	1869
	The Territory of Wyoming passes first law in Nation Giving Women the Right to Vote

	1870
	15th Amendment is Ratified allowing African American men, but not women, to vote

	1872
	Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote

	1872
	First woman nominated for President

	1874
	Right to Vote not a "Privilege or Immunity" of Citizenship

	1878
	The Susan B. Anthony Amendment, to grant women the vote, is first introduced in the U.S. Congress

	1890
	National American Women's Suffrage Association is Founded

	1890
	Wyoming gives women the right to vote

	1896
	The National Association of Colored Women is formed

	1913
	Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union

	October 1915
	Suffragists cross country by automobile to support women’s voting rights

	1916
	The National Women’s Party (NWP) organizes White House protests

	1917
	First woman is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

	1919
	The House of Representatives and the Senate pass the Woman’s Suffrage Amendment, which gives women the right to vote

	1919
	Congress Proposes 19th Amendment

	1920
	Nineteenth Amendment is Ratified

	1920
	League of Women Voters created

	August 26, 1920
	Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

	1922
	Amendment neither gives nor denies a woman's right to vote