Women's Suffrage Timeline

By Haha_Yes

  • First College Accepts Women

    Oberlin College in Ohio begins allowing women to attend it

  • Women's attendance at college climbs

    Around 20 percent of all college students at the time were women.

  • Women's attendance grows even further

    More than 1/3 of college students are women at the time

  • Journalism Business and Women

    A census counted 412 female artists in 1870

  • Susan B Anthony takes a stand

    Susan and three of her sisters, register to vote illegally, vote and get arrested by the government

  • Supreme Court lays down law

    Supreme Court says that even though women are US Citizens, they aren't allowed to vote

  • Frances Willard comes to power for the WCTU

    Prohibition group Woman's Christian Temperance Union gets a new leader and spreads her influence to stop alcohol.

  • AWSA was formed

    It wanted state governments to begin allowing women to vote instead of having the national government try

  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed

    This groups motivation was to make national government allow women to vote and have the states follow suit

  • National Association of Colored Women

    Some Prominent members include Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington.

  • Frances Willard's leadership ends

    Willard isn't leader of the WCTU anymore

  • More Female Artists joined the journalism business

    A census counted 11,207 female artists working for newspaper companies

  • Carry Nation began her mission

    Carry Nation would take a hatchet, walk into saloons and smash them up, and urged other women to follow suit with her

  • Congress Passed the Eighteenth Amendment

    Congress banned the distribution of alcohal

  • The States ratify the new Amendment

    The new amendment banned the selling and production of alcohol in the US.