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Roaring 20's - Woman's Rights

By Marissacantu

  • Declaration of Sentiments

    Declaration of Sentiments
    -DeclarationEqual treatment for men and women was put into play at the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. This set the agenda for women's rights!

  • National Women's Rights Convention

    National Women's Rights Convention
    -The ConventionThe first national meeting took place in Worcester, Massachusetts. Yearly meetings were held for the next ten years with the excpetion of 1857

  • American Woman Suffrage Association

    American Woman Suffrage Association
    -Women's SuffrageThis group focused on women's voting rights for individaul states.

  • Women's Suffrage Law

    Women's Suffrage Law
    -Women's SuffragePassed by Wyoming, the first suffrage law was put into play. The next year, women began serving on juries.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    -NAWSAThe National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association form to make the National American Women Suffrage Association. Their main goal is to obtain voting rights.

  • National Women's Trade Union League

    National Women's Trade Union League
    Trade UnionEstablished to improve women's work wages and conditions.

  • Birth control

    Birth control
    Birth Control Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.

  • 19th Ammendment

    19th Ammendment
    -The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women.
    -The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.