![]() ![]() October 6-8: The Fourth National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Cleveland, Ohio.September 8-10: The Third National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Syracuse, New York.October 15-16: The Second National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.May 29: Sojourner Truth gives her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at a Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.Almost 1,000 men and women from eleven states (including California) attend. October 23-24: The First National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts.The proposal dies in committee because woman suffrage is viewed as “unusual” and “needless.” A Michigan Senate committee proposes that the state adopt universal suffrage.One hundred of the attendees sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which includes a call for women’s access to the vote. Frederick Douglass is one of those present. Three hundred attend the convention organized in part by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. July 19-20: A Women’s Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York.Six property-owning women from the state petition the Convention, demanding “equal, and civil and political rights” enjoyed by white men in the state. June 1 through October 9: A New York State Constitutional Convention is held.In response, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott resolve to “form a society to advocate the rights of women.” Permitted to attend as spectators, they are not allowed to take part. June 12-23: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other women are excluded from the 1840 World Antislavery Congress in London.The Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly of New Jersey refer to voters as both “he” and “she.”.Because the ability to decide voting requirements is held by the states, becoming a citizen does not automatically confer voting rights. It allows white men born outside of the United States to become citizens. March 26: The Naturalization Act of 1790 passes.At the convention, it is decided that states have the right to determine qualifications required to vote. May to September: The United States Constitutional Convention is held at what is now Independence Hall in Philadelphia.Married women could not vote because legally they could not own property (all of their property reverted to their husbands upon marriage). Thus, unmarried or widowed women (Black and white) and Black men could vote if they met the other requirements. It allows all residents who own a specific amount of property to vote, without reference to gender or race. July 2: The New Jersey constitution of 1776 is adopted.(Women in many Native American tribes were leaders and influenced decisions long before Europeans arrived.) Lydia is the first white woman to vote in what was to become the United States. The vote was regarding the town’s involvement in the French and Indian Wars. October 30: Lydia Taft, recent widow of Josiah Taft, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is allowed to vote as Josiah’s proxy at a town meeting.
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