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Women opportunities for employment were bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. The women realized they could play a different role beyond their home.
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The AWSA focused exclusively on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis and it was also aligned with the Republican Party.
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20 percent of all college students are women.
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Susan tested the law in the beginning of 1872 by registering to vote on Election Day which was illegial.
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The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship didn't give them the right to vote. It was up to the states to grant women the right to vote.
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The NACW was formed to campaign against poverty, segregation, and lynchings. It also fought against the presistence of Jim Crow laws that denied african americans the right too vote.
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Some prominent members were Ida B. Wells-Bennet and Margaret Murray Washington.
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The Eighteenth Amendment was proposed by the Congress.
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the 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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The states ratified the eighteenth amendment.
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The 18th amendment proved so unpopular that it was repealed.