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Employment Opportunities
In the late 1800s, job opportunities for middle-class women expanded. Women worked as teachers and nurses, the traditional "caring professions" but they also entered the business world as bookkeepers, typists, secreraries, and shop clerks. -
Opportunities for Women
By the late 1800s women were finding more opportunities for education and employment -
First College to Admit Women
In 1833, Oberlin is the 1st College to admit women. In 1870, 20% of college students were women. By 1900, 1/3 of the number of women that are students increased. -
AWSA and NWSA
AWSA goal was to win to vote on a state-to-state basis while NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the vote -
Susan B. Anthony
She registered to vote while it was still illegal for women to vote. -
Supreme Court
The court ruled that even tough women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
The Merge of Two
The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged and formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stantion. -
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
It campaigned against poverty, segregation, and lynchings.
Ida B. WellsBarnett and Margaret Murray Washington of the Tuskegee Institue and Harriet Tubman, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad during the 1850s were some prominent members. -
Eighteenth Amendment
It prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of the alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment proved so unpopular, however, that it was repealed in 1933 -
Prohibition
The states approved the Eighteenth Amendment