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In 1833 Oberlin College is the first to admit women
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In 1848 the Seneca Convention was held, leading to the Declaration of Sentiments, a bold declaration for equal rights among women
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In 1869 Wyoming becomes the first territory, and later it was the first state, to allow women to vote.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Women Suffrage Association in 1869, they campaigned mostly for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote.
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The American Woman Suffrage Association is founded under their president Henry Ward Beecher, they focused on a state-by-state basis and aligned with the Republican Party
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In 1870 20% of college students are women
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In 1872, Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters registered to vote and voted in Rochester New York on Election, so they were then arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the congress of the United states
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The Supreme Court rules in 1875 that citizenship did not give you the right to vote and the state had to give a group the right to vote, making suffrage associations move to the state to state strategies to give women the right to vote.
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The two organizations merge in 1890 and form NAWSA, the National American Suffrage Association
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In 1896 the National Association of Colored Women is founded, one of the largest organizations of African American women
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After a very long time, in 1920 women finally get the right to vote, only one of the original signers of the Declaration of Sentiments was alive by then