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Institution for higher education
Sarah Pierce created the first institution where women could get a higher education in the state of Connecticut. -
1st Women Physician
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women who became a licensed physician -
1st Womens Rights Convention
The very first National Woman's Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts with 1,000 people in attendance. This gained national attention and the annual national conferences continue through 1860. -
Susan B. Anthony
The National Woman Suffrage Association is founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
Kansas
Kansas put a woman suffrage amendment proposal on the ballot, which lost. -
NAWSA
The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association come together to form NAWSA. -
1st women elected to Congress
Jeannette Rankin of Montana is seated in the U.S. House of Representatives -
Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment is quietly signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote. -
Pay
The Equal Pay Act was passed by Congress -
Congress=Female
Records are broken this year when more women than ever before were elected into Congress -
Presidential Election
Hilary Clinton announces her running for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the 2008 election she lost to Barack Obama.