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Abigail Adams sends a letter to her husband John asking that he remember the women in Declaration of Indepdence
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Emma Hart Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary in New York which was the first school opened for girls
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Oberlin College is the first co-ed College in the USA
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The National Female Anti-Slavery Society convention had their first meeting in New York City in which 81 people attended.
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Female workers in Massachusetts organize the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association and demand a 10-hour workday.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association.
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The first Amendment to give voting rights to men.
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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential election.
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Sojourner Truth appears at a polling booth in Battle Creek, Michigan, and tries to vote, but ends up being turned away.
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Several women attempt to use the Fourteenth Amendment in the courts to secure the vote or the right to practice law. They all are unsuccessful.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton founds theNational American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Bull Moose Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.
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The 19th Amendment is ratified and the women earn the right to vote.
