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38 years later in 1920, women finally got the right to vote. Did you know: New York City helped set the stage for women's voting rights across the country? Quick refresher on women’s suffrage in New York: ♀️1848: Declaration of Sentiments, signed at Seneca Falls, New York, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, calls for women’s rights ♀️1872: First female presidential candidate, New Yorker Victoria Woodhull, runs on the Equal Rights Party line ♀️1910: National American Woman Suffrage Association headquarters moves to New York City ♀️1912: Fifth Avenue parade of 10,000 demands votes for women ♀️1915: 40,000 suffragists participate in New York City’s largest parade ever New York State referendum on suffrage is defeated ♀️1917: New York voters approve votes for women ♀️1919: The 19th Amendment is passed by Congress ♀️1920: The 19th Amendment is ratified, granting women nationwide the right to vote ♀️1924: The Indian Citizenship Act granted Native Americans citizenship...

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