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Employment opportunities 1.0
Educated middle-class women job expanded in the late 1800s. Now Women doesn't work as there traditional caring professions like teachers and nurses thus they entered the business world as bookkeeper, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. In additions, businesses such as newspaper and magazines began to hire more women as artists and journalists. -
Higher education 1.0
Oberlin College began admitting women -
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Women's Suffrage 13.0
When the delegates to the Seneca Falls Convention met in 1848 to campaign for women's right, little did they know it would take 72 more years of organizing, campaigning, and persuading before they won the right to vote. -
Women's Suffrage 1.0
Harriet Tubman, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad during the 1850s, who had remained active in civil rights causes, also became a member of NACW. -
Women's suffrage 3.0
In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the vote. It dealth with other issues that concerned women as well, such as labor organizing. -
Women's Suffrage 4.0
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded in 1869, with Henry Ward Beecher as its president. Unlike the NWSA, the American Woman Suffrage Asociation focused exclusively on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis. It also aligned itself with the Republican Part. -
Women's Suffrage 2.0
In 1869 Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the vote. -
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Women's Suffrage 14.0
Susan B. testified before every Congress between 1869 and 1906 on behalf of women's suffrage. -
Increase on education 2.0
By 1870 about 20 percent of all college students were women. -
Women's Suffrage 5.0
In 1872 some NWSA members supported Victoria Woodhull, the first woman presidential candidate. -
Women's Suffrage 6.0
In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
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Start of Prohibition 1.0
Prohibition movement, which called for a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Frances the headed of Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1879 to 1898 -
Women's Suffrage 7.0
In 1890 National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged. They formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
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Women's Suffrage 15.0
Susan B. Anthony served as NAWSA's president form 1892 to 1900. -
Women's Suffrage 8.0
One of the largest organizations of African American women was founded in 1896. The National Association of Colored Wome(NACW) included some of the most prominent women within the African American community, such as antilynching activist Ida B. Wells Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington of the Tuskegee Institute.
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Prohibition 2.0
Starting in 1900, evangelist Carry Nation took her campaign right to the source. -
Increase on education 3.0
By 1900 that number had increased to more than one-third. -
Employment opportunities 2.0
By 1900 the census counted 11,207 female artists, up from 412 in 1870, and 2,193 female journalists, up from a mere 35 some three decades before. -
Women's Suffrage 9.0
Susan B. Anthony died in 1906. -
Increase on education 3.0
The American Medical Association starts to admit women members in 1915. -
Women's Suffrage 10.0
By 1916 the NACW organization had more than 100,000 members -
Prohibitionists 3.0
In 1917 Congress proposed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
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Prohibition 4.0
The states ratified the amendment in 1919. The Eight teenth Amendment proved so unpopular; however, that it was repealed in 1933. -
Women's Suffrage 11.0
When women nationwide finally won the vote in 1920, only on a designer of the Seneca Falls Declaration-Charlotte Woodward, age 92-was still alive. -
Women's suffrage 12.0
In 1872 she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on Election Day they voted in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later they were arrested for knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.