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In Seneca Falls, New York, the first documented gathering over women's rights was taken place. The principal/leader Cady Stanton basically described the preamble of the Decleration of Independence that stated all men and women are created equal. How ever, that was not the case.
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Susan B. Anthony and Cady made a life time alliance being Women's Rights Activists. Their first "task" was unsuccesful as trying to include women in the 14th and 15th amendments which entended citizenship rights and voting rights,
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Anthony and Stanton create the NWSA(National Women Suffrage Act) was created. This organization opposed the 15th amendment which was the right to vote. Another organization was created by Lucy Stone called the AWSA(American Women Suffrage Association) that rejected NWSA's agenda in trying to get a national reform at the state level.
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The first state that allows women to vote is Wyoming. Three other states follwed over a 40 year time span.
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Aaron Sargent introduces in congress a women's suffrage amendment in 1878. But it was stalled and never went any where.
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The nation experiences a surge of volunteerism among middle-class-women. The women who helped in this timespan, helped legitmize the suffrage movement and created power for the NWSA and AWSA. At the end of this "era" the two groups formed together to for the NAWSA which was led by Susan B. Anothny and Cady Stanton. Then other women groups such as the Women's Trade Union League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the National Consumer's league all gave supported to the NAWSA.
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Colorado allows full women voting
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Utah and Idaho allow women to vote
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Some reformers were impatient and wanted things right away. Alice Paul formed the rival Congressional Union(later named the National Women's Party). They used more militant tactics. She recruited younger women and helped resuscitate a push for a federal equal rights amendment, and attacked the democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson for obstructing the extension of the vote to women.
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The 19th amendment of the United States is signed into law by the secretary of state Bainbridge Colby.
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Margaret Sanger finds the American Birth Control League. Which is now Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
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Food and Drug Administration approves Birth Control Pills, sparking women rights groups.
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President Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Eleanor is the chairwoman. It's main focus was the fact that women are unequal in the work place and gives specific ideas on how to fix it. Betty Friedan publishes a book called The Feminine Mystique that desricbed the inequality felt by middle-class American Housewives with the "role" society has put on them. On June 10th, congress passes the Equal Pay Act that makes it illegal to pay women less money in the job
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Abortion is legal. This overrides many anti-abortion laws in many states.
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First marriage rape law is created, making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife.
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There are still problems today with women's rights. They are allowed to vote, have "equal" rights to men, and they don't count as a "different" person. Today, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes about 75 cents. You could argue that there is still in equality today.
