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In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation's women when fighting for America's independence from Great Britain.
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Emma Hart Willard (February 23, 1787 – April 15, 1870) was an American Women’s rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education
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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College): It is the oldest (and first) school which was established as an institution of higher education for women (teaching seminary) that is still a women's college.
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The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held on May 9, 1837. 175 women joined from 10 different states. This gathering represented the first time that women from such a broad geographic area met with the common purpose of promoting the anti-slavery cause among women.
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Mississippi passes the first married woman property act.
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The first permanent labor associations for working women in the United States.
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The first gathering devoted to women's rights in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Suffrage, the right to vote in political elections, was an important aspect of the movement's activities.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, which rapidly becomes a bestseller. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.
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This enabled women to control real and personal property, participate in contracts and lawsuits, inherit independently of their husbands, work for a salary, and write wills were enacted.
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During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort.
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Several women, including Virginia Louisa minor, Victoria Woodhull, and Myra Bradwell, attempted to use the fourteenths amendment in the courts to secure the vote and the right to practice law.
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The WCTU was to create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity.
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Mizora is a utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane, first published in 1880, when it was serialized in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper. It appeared in book form in 1890. Mizora is "the first portrait of an all-female, self-sufficient society,"[2] and "the first feminist technological Utopia."
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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), American organization created in 1890 by the merger of the two major rival women’s rights organizations—the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association—after 21 years of independent operation.
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National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) was the first national organization in history to unite Jewish women to promote the Jewish religion.That its commitment to preserving Jewish heritage in a quickly modernizing America would be fraught with contradictions was not readily apparent in the optimistic surroundings of the World Parliament of Religions, convened as part of the Chicago World Exposition.
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The Woman's Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man.
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The National Association of Colored Women (later National Association of Colored Women's Clubs) was established in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 1896. The organization helped all African-American women by working on issues of civil rights and injustice, such as women’s suffrage, lynching, and Jim Crow laws.
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Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank.
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NAWSA ceases to exist, but its organization becomes the nucleus of the League of Women Voters.
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The National Suffrage Amendment, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, is passed by Congress
on June 5. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting the vote to women, becomes law on August
26. Women vote for the first time in the presidential election on November 2.
