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Women in colleges
In 1856, Vassar college accepted its first female students. In 1875, Smith and Wellesly colleges also began to accept women students. Columbia, Brown, and Harvard colleges refused to accept women students, but each made their own universities for women. -
Women get the vote
Suffragist leaders tried to convince state legislatures to give women the vote and they were successful in the state of Wyoming in 1869. By the 1890's Utah, Colorad and Idaho also gave women the vote. -
Domestic Workers
Women that lacked formal education or industrial skills did domestic work. Lots of Afican American women went to cities for work as laundresses, maids, scrubwomen, and other such jobs. Just about 70 % of women were maids of some sort. -
Susette La Flesche
She testified before congressional committees and helped win the Dawes Act of 1887. she also translated the sad words of Chief Standing Bear into English. -
Dawes Act of 1887
This alllowed individual Native Americans rights over reservation land and citizenship. -
creation of the NACW
African American women founded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) my joining together two other organizations. The NACW looked after nurseries, reading rooms and kindergartens. -
Women Lead Reform
Womans clubs had about half a million women participating in discussing literature and fine arts. -
Woman Lead Reform
The womens rights group grew after 146 workers died in the fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York city.
