Women's Suffrage

By SweThiKyaw

  • Women's Right Movement 2.

    Job opportunities for educated middle class women expanded: they worked as teachers and nurses, which are the traditional “caring professions,” but they also entered business jobs as bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks.

  • Women's Right Movement 1.

    Oberlin College is the first to admit women.

  • Women's Right Movement 6.

    American Women Suffrage Movement Association was founded in 1869. Though AWSA and NACW focused on similar things, AWSA mainly focused on winning the right to vote state by state.

  • Women's Right Movement 1.

    20% of college students were women

  • Women's Right Movement 7.

    Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters tested the law by staging a dramatic protest; they registered to vote and on Election Day they voted in Rochester, NY.

  • Women's Right Movement 8.

    The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, their citizenship did not give them the right to vote. The court decided it was up to the states to grant, or withhold, them the right.

  • Women's Right Movement 3.

    Frances Willard led the WCTU until 1898 and Willard made the WCTU a powerful force for temperance and the rights for women.

  • Women's Right Movement 5.

    One of the largest organizations of African American women was founded in 1896. The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was formed because many African American women discovered that they were not welcome in most reform organizations.

  • Women's Right Movement 5.

    Some of the most prominent women in the NACW were included in it such as Ida B. Wells who was an anti lynching activist, Margaret Murray Washington from Tuskegee Institute, and Harriet Tubman, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and had also remained active in civil rights.

  • Women's Right Movement 1.

    20% of women attending college increased to more than one-third

  • Women's Right Movement 2.

    The census counted 11,207 female artists up from 412 in 1870. 2,193 female journalists up from 35, about three decades before.

  • Women's Right Movement 3.

    Carry Nation took a hatchet in one hand and a bible in the other and smashed up saloons in Kansas. Nation’s speeches, dramatic raids, and sense of publicity made her a national figure in the temperance cause.

  • Women's Right Movement 3.

    The states validated the eighteenth amendment

  • Women's Right Movement 4.

    The eighteenth amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. However, in 1933 it was repealed because it was unpopular to the citizens