Women lose the right to vote in Massachusetts. Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire. 1787 US Constitutional Convention places voting qualifications in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote. 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Women in England.
Women lose the right to vote in New Jersey, the last state to revoke the right.
1830s Formation of the female anti-slavery associations 1836 Angelina Grimke appeals to Southern women to speak out against slavery. World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women barred from participating on account of their sex. First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York. After debate of so radical a notion, it is adopted.