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8000 BCE
Indians In America
The Tuscarora, Algonquin, Cherokee, Siouan, Catawba Native American Tribes give women the four significant roles of being life givers, intermediaries between the real world and the spirit world, indispensable components of the earth and its process, and the people differently built but equally to men. -
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson demands that she and other women be allowed to talk in churches and is also a poet that writes of other things rather than to talk about god in the puritan church which also led to her being kicked out of the establishment. -
Edenton Tea Party
51 "Liberty" ladies wrote a letter led by Penelope Barker stating they would boycott East Indian Tea until the tax established by Great Britain was removed. -
Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison becomes the very first, first lady in the United States of America. She is also from North Carolina. -
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Education For White Females In North Carolina
In this time period more than 250 schools opened for white females in the state of North Carolina. Link text -
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First Women's Right Convention
The world's first convention concerning women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York. A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is debated and eventually signed by 68 women and 32 men. Link text -
Womens Sufferage
The American Equal Rights Association, the first organization in the country is founded to advocate national women's suffrage, is founded. -
Voting Rights act in 1965
Voting Rights act past so everyone could vote equally at the time black people would have to do so much and pay a large fee to vote this act stopped that.