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"Remember the Ladies"
The first Lady, Abigail Adams, wrote to her husband John who was attending Continental Congress in Philadelphia, telling him to "remember the ladies." John, however, replied, thinking it was a joke, saying that "Dear, the Constitution states 'all men are created equal.'"
This event was used because this was the "spark" that started the "fire" of women suffrage. -
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The Women Suffrage Timeline
This is most of the History of Women and their fight to have the vote. -
New Jersey grants the vote!
New Jersey gave women the right to vote.
This event was included because this showed that once, long ago, New Jersey was the actual REAL first state to let women vote. -
New Jersey does not let women vote anymore!
In the year 1807, New Jersey took back the law that stated that women could vote.
This was included because this shows that many people disagreed with letting women vote in New Jersey, which shows that sexist people still existed back then. -
School for girls
Emma Hart Willard founded the first endowed
school for girls in New York.
This was included also because this is an extremely important event: the very first endowed school for girls. Having a school for girls shows that women are intelligent, perseverant, and hard-working. This proves women are just as important as men. -
Oberlin college becomes co-educational
Oberlin College was the first co-educational college in the United States.
This was included because this started to develop into the educated women of the middle-class. -
National Female Anti-Slavery Society
The convention met for the very first time in New York. Eighty-one delegates from twelve states attended the meeting.
This was included because women are women, no matter what race. This convention protected women, black women, from slavery. -
Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts
Mary Lyons founded Mount Holyoke College. This was the first four year college for women in Massachusetts.
I chose this event because this proved that more college opportunities were opening up to women. -
The First Degrees
Oberlin college grants its first academic degrees to three women, which include arly graduates Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown.
I chose this event because this proves that women CAN go to college to make a living. -
Civil War
Thisdate was in the middle of the Civil War, and women were helping out too. The women in the North were hiding slaves from the Southern owners. Women actually really helped during the Civil War because they were the ones that had to run EVERYTHING while the men were gone, the store if the owned one, the house, plantation. Women were the ones that kept things running. That is why I chose this event. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign nationwide.
I chose this article because Ida was a woman, and she spoke out, which I found brave and frightening. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United Staes. leader of the bullmoose party, it became the first national political party to adopt a women suffrage plank in 1912.
I chose this event because I was amazed the first time I discovered this, that a party founded by a man, but not just any man, the President, was the founder of the first political party to adopt a women suffrage plank! -
NAWSA
National American Women Suffrage Association President Carrie Chapman Catt reveals the ultimate plan to win the vote in New Jersey.
I chose this event because this was one of the major groups that helped women get the vote. -
America joins WW1
Wilson wrote a message to Congress on April2nd, 1917 asking if America could join the war.
I included this in my timeline because this was the day that women knew they could help in the war, and they knew that they would be useful in the war effort. -
Women help in the war effort
Women were finding themselves useful as nurses at th Red Cross foundation, helping wounded or dying soldiers. In this war, women were the ones that took care of wounded soldiers, and without women, the soldiers could not have recovered with doctors alone. I chose this event because women were really getting serious about getting the vote, and they wanted it so badly that they wanted to make themselves look worthy or useful. -
The 19th Ammenment
Congress ratified the ammenment. After the long journey, women can finally vote. Yay!
