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Women learned how to organize how to persuade other people, and how to publicize thier cause. Futhermore, participation in these movements taught women they had power to improve life for themselves.
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In 1833, Oberlin college begin admitting women as well as men.
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Women worked as nurses, teachers, and also as bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks.
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The National Woman Suffrage Association is founded in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Cady Stanton. They campianged for the right to vote in the form of a constitution amendement
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Henry Ward Beecher was president of the American Woman Suffrage Association founded in 1869, The American Suffrage Association was different from the National Woman Suffrage Association in the way that they wanted the ability to vote on a state-by-state basis.
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Susan B. Anthony testified in front of congress every year between 1869 and 1906
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About 20 percent of all college students were women in 1870.
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The National Women Suffrage Association supports Victoria Woodhull the first women presidential canidate in 1872.
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Susan B. Anthony attempted to vote as a political protest. She was arrested and the judge ruled her guilty and fined her $100. Anthony refused to pay the fine hoping for an appeal, but the judge did not imprison Anthony denying her the right to an appeal.
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The supreme court rules that women did not have the right to vote even though they were citizens.
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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was a women's political movement in favor of prohbition. It was run by Frances Willard from 1879 to 1898, Willard was a leader in making changes in prohibition and women's rights.
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National Association of Colored Women was founded in 1896.
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The number of women in college increased from 1870 by 1/3 in the year 1900.
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According to the U.S. Census, 11,207 female artists existed up from 412 in 1870, and 2,193 female journalists existed up from 35.
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Carry Nation was a prohbition leader who smashed saloons with a bible in her hand in an attempt to stop the sale of alchol. She encouraged other women to join her.
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The organization included women such as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington and Harriet Tubman. The organization had more than 100,000 members in 1916.
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Congress proposes the eighteenth amendment which prohibited alchol manufacturing, sale and distribution.
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Prohibited United States citizens to be denied the right to vote because of their gender.
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The eighteenth amendment was so unpopular that it was repealed in 1933.
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In 1919, the states ratified the eighteenth amendment.