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A timeline of women's suffrage...
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Seneca Falls Convention meets to campaign for women's rights.
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Women ventured from working traditional "caretaker jobs" (teachers, nurses), into the business world
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The Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the right to vote.
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20% of all college students were female.
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Utah Territory grant their women the right to vote.
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Members from the National Women's Suffrage Association supported Victoria Woodhull, who was the first woman to attempt running for president.
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The Supreme court stated that just because women were citizens of the United States didn't give them the right to vote.
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Frances Willard headed the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
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Oberlin College, in Ohio, begin admitting women.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women's Suffrage Association.
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More than one third of college students, across the nation, were women.
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The census counted 11,207 female artists and 2,193 female journalists.
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Carry Nation took her battle against alcohol to the extreme.
She, and a group of several other women began vandalizing bars, delivering angry speeches, and carrying out dramatic raids. -
Congress proposed the 18th Amendment
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Sates ratify the 18th Amendment.
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Women finally win the right to vote.
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The 18th Amendment proved to be so unpopular that it was terminated.