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Women were first admitted into the college of Oberlin.
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Women were finding more opportunites for education and employment.
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Job opportunites for educated middle class women expanded. Women worked as teachers and nurses.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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AWSA focused manily on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis
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About 20 percent of all college students were women.
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She testified before every Congress between 1869 through 1906 on behalf of womens suffrage.
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The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote.
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Francs Willard headed the WCTU. He made the WCTU a powerful force for temperance and rights for women.
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The largest organization of African American was founded. This included Ida B. Wells Barnett and Margarnet Murray Washington.
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By the 1900s the number of women increased by one third.
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11,207 female artisits, up from 412 in 1870.
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Carry Nation took her campain right to the source. She smashed up saloons in Kansas and urged other women to do the same.
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Congress proposed the 18th admendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distrubition of alcoholic beverages.
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Prohibits the distrubition of alcoholic beverages, in 1933 the 18th admendment was repealed.