Women and Public Life

  • Women Get Into College

    Women were first admitted into the college of Oberlin.
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    Life is Changing For Women

    Women were finding more opportunites for education and employment.
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    Employment Opportunities

    Job opportunites for educated middle class women expanded. Women worked as teachers and nurses.
  • Women Organize

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • AWSA was founded

  • AWSA and NWSA

    AWSA focused manily on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis
  • Number of Women in Oberlin College

    About 20 percent of all college students were women.
  • Susan B. Anthony Test the Law

    She testified before every Congress between 1869 through 1906 on behalf of womens suffrage.
  • The Supreme Court Rules

    The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote.
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    Prohibitation

    Francs Willard headed the WCTU. He made the WCTU a powerful force for temperance and rights for women.
  • NACW

    The largest organization of African American was founded. This included Ida B. Wells Barnett and Margarnet Murray Washington.
  • Numbers Increased For Women

    By the 1900s the number of women increased by one third.
  • Job Market Arises

    11,207 female artisits, up from 412 in 1870.
  • Prohibitation pt.2

    Carry Nation took her campain right to the source. She smashed up saloons in Kansas and urged other women to do the same.
  • Prohibitation pt.3

    Congress proposed the 18th admendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distrubition of alcoholic beverages.
  • 18th Admendment

    Prohibits the distrubition of alcoholic beverages, in 1933 the 18th admendment was repealed.