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Women's Rights During the Civil War and Reconstruction

By gretchenbrehm211
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    Growth of Women's Rights

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted "Declaration of Sentiments"

  • Women's Rights convention

    First of the annual conventions held in Boston to discuss educational rights, equal pay for equal work, marriage reform, and property rights for women * not held in 1857, 1861-1865
  • Helen Magill

    Helen Magill

    Helen was the first female to enroll and attend the Boston Public Latin School

  • Lincoln elected

  • South Carolina secedes

    In response to Lincoln winning the presidency, South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Ft. Sumter attacked

    The Confederacy attacks Ft. Sumter starting the Civil War
  • Clara Barton helps the Union

    Clara Barton helps the Union

    Ms. Barton received pernission from the Quartermaster, Daniel Rucker, to work on the front lines as a nurse

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln's proclamation that freed all slaves in the Confederacy, but not in the Border States

  • 13th Amendment

    this amendment freed all slaves in the USA and abolished slavery

  • Lucy Stone and Susan B Anthony join forces create AERA

    Ms. Stone and Ms. Anthony suggest that women and African Americans establish an organization to work toward universal suffrage and create the American Equal Rights Association with Elizabeth Stanton and Frederick Douglass
  • "The Revolution"

    "The Revolution"

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony begin publishing their radical periodical of women's rights
    motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less."

  • 14th Amendment

    Based on the wording of this amendment that made all people born in the USA citizens, the words "citizens" and "voters" were defined as "male."

  • NWSA created

    founded by Stanton and Anthony to begin the long struggle for women's rights

  • AWSA created

    in response to the founding of the NWSA, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia W. Howe form their organization to help women and blacks

  • Wyoming gives women the vote

    To help WY work its way toward gaining statehood, they give women the right to vote

  • Arabella Mansfield

    first woman admitted to the bar in Iowa and allowed to practice law
  • Myra Bradwell

    Myra Bradwell

    She was denied admission to the IL state bar... took her case to the US Supreme Court and they affirmed that states could restrict women from the practice of ANY profession to uphold the law of the Creator.

  • first woman baliff, jury and justice of the peace

    Wyoming

  • 15th Amendment

    gives black men the right to vote. Important to note that according to the wording of the Amendment that women were not excluded from this right, but states made sure their votes were not allowed in.
  • Charlotte E. Ray

    Charlotte E. Ray

    She was an African American woman and the first to graduate from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar. Ms. Ray was also the first woman permitted to argue cases before the US Supreme Court.
  • Equal Pay for Equal Work

    Equal Pay for Equal Work

    Thanks to the efforts of Belva Lockwood (a lawyer in Washington, D.C.), Congress passed a law giving women federal employees equal pay for equal work.

  • Comstock Act of 1873

    This federal law made it illegal to send any "obscene" materials through the mail; this included contraceptive devices and abortion materials to educate women.
  • Helen Magill White

    Helen Magill White

    She was the first woman to earn her Ph.D. from a college in the USA, a doctorate in Greek from Boston University