New Jersey is last state to take away women's right to vote.
Elizabeth Greer is educated at the Worthington Female Seminary and begins teaching at this institution. Summer 1840 English and French male delegates refuse to seat women abolitionist delegates Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Antislavery Convention in London. Despite bitter protest by male U.S. delegates, female abolitionists are prevented from addressing the Convention. This incident humiliates women delegates and convinces them that their position is no better than that of slaves. Abbey Kelly comes to Columbus, Ohio to speak out against slavery.