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Job opportunities for educated middle-class women expanded in the late 1800s. Women worked as teachers and workers.
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Oberlin is 1st college to admit women
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By 1870, about 20 percent of all college students were women
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The NWSA campaigned for the constitutional amendment to give women the vote. While AWSA focused exclusively on winning the right on a state-by-state basis.
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Susan wrote pamphlets and made speeches. She also testified before every Congress between 1869 and 1906 on behalf of women suffrage. In 1872, she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on Election Day, they voted in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later they were arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully." Voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.
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The court decided it was up to the states to grant or withhold that right.
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Called for a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reformers believed alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty and violence against women and children.
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The National Association of Colored Women included some of the most prominent women within the African American community, such as antilynching activist Ida B. Wells- Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington of the Tuskegee Institute
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The number of women as college students increased to more than one third
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The states ratified the amendment 1919. The 18th amendment was so unpopular however, that it was repealed in 1933