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Women's Suffrage
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Higher Education
In 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio, began admitting women as well as men. -
Women organize
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. The NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. -
Women organize
In 1869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was found with Henry Ward Beecher as its president. Unlike the NWSA, the AWSA focused exclusively on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis. -
Higher Education
By 1870 about 20 percent of all college students were women. -
Susan B. Anthony tests the law
In 1872 Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on Election Day they voted in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later they were arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfuly" voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States. -
Susan B. Anthony tests the law
In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
Prohibition
Prohibition movement- a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reforemers believed alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children. -
Prohibition
Progressive women also gained political experience by participating in the prohibition movement. Two national organizations, the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anit-Saloon League , led an organized crusade against alcohol. Frances Willard headed WTCU from 1879 to 1898. -
Civil rights
Many African American women discovered that they were not welcome in most reform organizations. So they formed their own. The National Association of Colored Women included some of the most prominent women within the African American community. -
Civil rights
Ida B. WellsBarnett, Margaret Murray Washington, and Harriet Tubman became prominent members of the National Association of Colored Women. -
Higher Education
By 1900 more than one-third of all college students were women. -
Employment oppurtunities
By 1900 the census countefd 11,207 female artists, up from 412 in 1870, and 2,193 female journalists, up from a mere 35 some three decades before. -
Children's health and warfare
Lillian Wald campaigned tiredlessly for the creation of a federal agency to meet that goal. She was successful when the Federal Children's Bureau opened in 1912. -
Higher Education
The American Medical Association started to admit women. -
Civil Rights
By 1916 the National Association of Colored Women had more than 100,000 members -
Prohibition
In 1917 Congress proposed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, abd distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
Prohibition
The Eighteenth Amendment was proved so unpopular that it was repealed.