Women's Suffrage

  • Oberlin College in Ohio began admitting women as well as men

  • The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed

  • 20% of college students were women

  • Some NWSA members supported Victoria Woodhull, the first woman presidential candidate

  • Women worked as teachers and nurses, and entered the business world

  • The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote.

  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League led an organized crusade against alcohol

  • The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged

  • The National Association of Colored Women had more than 100,000 members.

  • The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed

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