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Educated women in the middle class got better job opportunities.
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Oberlin was the first college to accept women.
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at least 20 percent of all college students were women.
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Nwsa wanted to give women the right to vote and AWSA focused on winning the right on a state by state basis.
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Susan B. Anthony and her sisters did a dramatic protest. They signed up to vote in New York then got arrested.
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The court decided it was up to the states to grant or withhold that right.
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Called for a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reformers believed alcohol was often responsible for the crime, poverty, and violence against women, and children
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The 18th Amendment was so unpopular however, that it was repealed in 1933