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.”