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New colonies decided to adopt the English way of law and decreed that women were not allowed to own property or keep money earned.
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All current states within the United States pass a law that denies women the right to vote.
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Mississippi becomes the first state allowing women to have property in their names, as long as their husband gives permission.
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300 men and women sign the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, New York. This declaration was a plea for the end of discrimination against women.
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The 14th Amendment is signed into the U.S. Constitution, stating "citizens" and "voters" are "male".
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Arabella Mansfield is allowed to practice law in Iowa, becoming the first woman lawyer. The same year Ada H. Kepley became the first woman to graduate law school.
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Federal employees are given equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender.
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Susan B. Anthony tests the 14th Amendment on its definition of "citizens" and "voters" by casting her vote. She is then convicted of unlawful voting.
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull is nominated by the National Radical Reformers as the first female to run for president.
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Susanna Medora Salter is elected the first woman mayor or Argonia, Kansas.
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Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women the right to vote.
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All states have now passed laws allowing married women the right to keep their wages and own property in their names.
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Alice Paul got 80,000 women to walk with her in protest of women's rights the day before the inauguration of President Wilson.
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Alice Paul created the National Women's Party and used methods learned during her work in the British suffrage movement.
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The first woman is elected to the House of Representative, Jeanette Rankin from Montana.
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Margaret Sanger opens a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
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For two years, the National Woman's Party held a silent protest outside of the White House. For six days every week, women would wear white, stay silent, and held signs demanding the right to vote.
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Margaret Sanger wins a suit granting New York doctors the right to advise married patients about birth control in regards to health.
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Women are given the right to vote across the United States
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"Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
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First woman is elected to the U.S. Senate, a Hattie Wyatt Caraway from Arkansas.
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This act made it so only one person from a family can hold a government job. This Act cost many women their jobs and earning.
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Appointed by President Roosevelt, Frances Perkins became the first female cabinet member.
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The first woman to go through astronaut testing was Jerrie Cobb. NASA cancels the program before any woman makes it to space.
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Congress passes the Equal Pay Act, giving all workers the same wages regardless of color, race, religion, origin, or gender.
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This Act made it so no one could be discriminated in the workplace based on color, religion, origin, or gender.