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colonies adopt English system of property ownership for married women, which meant that women could not own property in their own name or keep the earnings they received
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13 states pass laws that prohibit women from voting.
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First public schools for women open in New York and Boston.
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Oberlin College in Ohio is the first co-educational college in the U.S. Three women graduated in 1841.
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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary is established in Massachusetts by Mary Lyon as the first college for women.
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Lucreita Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are not allowed to attend a world anti slavery convention in London which then causes them to hold a womens convention in the US
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The first Women’s rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. Individuals write and sign the declaration of sentiments, which created the agenda of women’s activism for decades to come.
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First state constitution in California extends property rights to women
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First and second national Womens rights convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts. An alliance was formed here with the Abolitionist movement
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Efforts for womens suffrage movement come to a halt during the civil war
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American equal Rights association- goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race
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The National Labor Union pushes for equal pay for equal work. Women must be paid the same as a man for doing the same or equivalent job with the same qualifications
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racial equality issue splits two suffrage associations
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Territory of Wyoming gives women the right to vote
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first female president nominated- first female president nominated
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Congress requires federal equal pay for equal work
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Susan B. Anthony arrested for trying to vote in New York
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Supreme court denies voting rights to women
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League of womens voter created to educate women on their right to vote leag
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The 10th amendment is ratified- womens right to vote
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First equal rights amendment introduced
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Equal pay act becomes a federal law
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Civil rights protections extended to women
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Supreme court establishes abortion right
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Women are integrated into all branches of the U.S. military
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Employment discrimination against pregnant women banned
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed into law- right to sue for pay discrimination
